ABSTRACT
Dean Schottland, out of his own distinguished background of scholarship and statemanship in social welfare, has ably presented a comprehensive description of the interplay of bureaucratic and political forces at the federal level in the enactment of present social welfare policy. It is a scholarly and an accurate picture of the way things have been with the welfare state. The view of the welfare state as anachronism reflects two factors in the current scene: the use of the welfare state as an actual instrument of domestic oppression; and the link-up between the American efforts to impose their beliefs on people abroad through main force. The rural poor in many ways lead different lives from their city brothers and sisters but, "the welfare" is seen more often than not as an oppressive force—one that, can manipulate them into virtually forced labor at low wages according to the needs of local government and agriculture.
