An excerpt from the newly updated and expanded US edition of The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders, which offers socialists and other leftists an essential basis for reflection, assessment, and debate about how to achieve transformative change.
“When the Welfare People Come” offers a sweeping look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, exposing the racist system—from the “orphan trains” and Indian boarding schools to current practices in child protective investigations, foster care, and mandated services—arguing that it constitutes a mechanism of control exerted over poor and working-class parents and children.
