"To strive for economic and social justice": welfare, sexuality, and party politics in San Francisco in the 1960s

Bell, J. W. (2010) "To strive for economic and social justice": welfare, sexuality, and party politics in San Francisco in the 1960s. Journal of Policy History, 22 (2). pp. 193-225. ISSN 0898-0306 doi: 10.1017/S0898030610000035

Abstract/Summary

This article explores how liberal politicians like Phil Burton of San Francisco joined with welfare rights lobbyists and bureaucrats to embrace late twntieth-century notions of sexual equality through a broader reconception of economic equality brought about by the expansion of the California welfare state in the early 1960s.