Protecting soldiers and mothers : The political origins of social policy in the United States

By:

Skocpol Theda

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Publication details: London Harvard University Press 1995Description: 714p xvISBN:

9780674717664

Subject(s):

1. Public Welfare - U S A 2. Social Policy

DDC classification:

361.973000 SKO

Contents:

Table of contents * Introduction: Understanding the Origins of Modern Social Provision in the United States * Part I: A Precocious Social Spending Regime *1. Patronage Democracy and Distributive Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century *2. Public Aid for the Worthy Many: The Expansion of Benefits for Veterans of the Civil War * Part II: The Failure of a Paternalist Welfare State *3. Reformist Professionals as Advocates of Workingmen's Insurance *4. Help for the "Army of Labor"? Trade Unions and Social Legislation *5. Progressive Era Politics and the Defeat of Social Policies for Workingmen and the Elderly * Part III: Foundations for a Maternalist Welfare State? *6. Expanding the Separate Sphere: Women's Civic Action and Political Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century *7. Safeguarding the "Mothers of the Race": Protective Legislation for Women Workers *8. An Unusual Victory for Public Benefits: The "Wildfire Spread" of Mothers' Pensions *9. Statebuilding for Mothers and Babies: The Children's Bureau and the Sheppard-Towner Act * Conclusion: America's First Modern Social Policies and Their Legacies * Appendix 1: Percentages of the Elderly in the States and the District of Columbia Receiving Civil War Pensions in 1910 * Appendix 2: Endorsements of Mothers' Pensions by Women's Groups: Sources for Table 9 and Figure 27 * Notes * Index

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Table of contents
* Introduction: Understanding the Origins of Modern Social Provision in the United States
* Part I: A Precocious Social Spending Regime
*1. Patronage Democracy and Distributive Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century
*2. Public Aid for the Worthy Many: The Expansion of Benefits for Veterans of the Civil War
* Part II: The Failure of a Paternalist Welfare State
*3. Reformist Professionals as Advocates of Workingmen's Insurance
*4. Help for the "Army of Labor"? Trade Unions and Social Legislation
*5. Progressive Era Politics and the Defeat of Social Policies for Workingmen and the Elderly
* Part III: Foundations for a Maternalist Welfare State?
*6. Expanding the Separate Sphere: Women's Civic Action and Political Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century
*7. Safeguarding the "Mothers of the Race": Protective Legislation for Women Workers
*8. An Unusual Victory for Public Benefits: The "Wildfire Spread" of Mothers' Pensions
*9. Statebuilding for Mothers and Babies: The Children's Bureau and the Sheppard-Towner Act
* Conclusion: America's First Modern Social Policies and Their Legacies
* Appendix 1: Percentages of the Elderly in the States and the District of Columbia Receiving Civil War Pensions in 1910
* Appendix 2: Endorsements of Mothers' Pensions by Women's Groups: Sources for Table 9 and Figure 27
* Notes
* Index

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