@article{ref1,
title="Social Legislation",
journal="American journal of sociology",
year="1929",
author="Lindsay, Samuel McCune",
volume="34",
number="6",
pages="1053-1063",
abstract="The output of 1928 was meager, notwithstanding only nine state legislatures and Congress held sessions. Social legislation in its comprehensive aspects includes subjects like labor legislation, which is treated in a separate article (q.v.), public health, also covered in a general article on &quot;Public Health and Medicine&quot; (q.v.), and many important administrative measures, which are treated in a special article on &quot;Government&quot; (q.v.). The topics briefly summarized with respect to significant legislative changes in 1928 are: public poor relief, including poor laws, public charities, dependent and defective children, child welfare, mothers' pensions, old age pensions; housing, city planning, and zoning; public health, public education, and recreation; humane legislation, including prevention of cruelty to animals, prevention of cruelty to children, juvenile delinquency, courts, and probation, treatment of prisoners, and prison labor.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-9602",
doi="10.1086/214883",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/214883"
}