Protecting Soldiers and Mothers : : The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States / / Theda Skocpol.
It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and...
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Skocpol, Theda, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Protecting Soldiers and Mothers : The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States / Theda Skocpol. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©1992 1 online resource (736 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction Understanding the Origins of Modern Social Provision in the United States -- Part I A Precocious Social Spending Regime -- Chapter 1 Patronage Democracy and Distributive Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 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 -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 Reformist Professionals as Advocates of Workingmen's Insurance -- Chapter 4 Help for the "Army of Labor"? Trade Unions and Social Legislation -- Chapter 5 Progressive Era Politics and the Defeat of Social Policies for Workingmen and the Elderly -- Part III Foundations for a Maternalist Welfare State? -- Introduction -- Chapter 6 Expanding the Separate Sphere: Women's Civic Action and Political Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 7 Safeguarding the "Mothers of the Race": Protective Legislation for Women Workers -- Chapter 8 An Unusual Victory for Public Benefits: The "Wildfire Spread" of Mothers' Pensions -- Chapter 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 I9 I O -- Appendix 2 Endorsements of Mothers' Pensions by Women's Groups: Sources for Table 9 and Figure 27 -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) Public welfare United States History 19th century. Public welfare United States History 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674043725?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674043725 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674043725/original |
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction Understanding the Origins of Modern Social Provision in the United States -- Part I A Precocious Social Spending Regime -- Chapter 1 Patronage Democracy and Distributive Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 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 -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 Reformist Professionals as Advocates of Workingmen's Insurance -- Chapter 4 Help for the "Army of Labor"? Trade Unions and Social Legislation -- Chapter 5 Progressive Era Politics and the Defeat of Social Policies for Workingmen and the Elderly -- Part III Foundations for a Maternalist Welfare State? -- Chapter 6 Expanding the Separate Sphere: Women's Civic Action and Political Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 7 Safeguarding the "Mothers of the Race": Protective Legislation for Women Workers -- Chapter 8 An Unusual Victory for Public Benefits: The "Wildfire Spread" of Mothers' Pensions -- Chapter 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 I9 I O -- Appendix 2 Endorsements of Mothers' Pensions by Women's Groups: Sources for Table 9 and Figure 27 -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction Understanding the Origins of Modern Social Provision in the United States -- Part I A Precocious Social Spending Regime -- Chapter 1 Patronage Democracy and Distributive Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 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 -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 Reformist Professionals as Advocates of Workingmen's Insurance -- Chapter 4 Help for the "Army of Labor"? Trade Unions and Social Legislation -- Chapter 5 Progressive Era Politics and the Defeat of Social Policies for Workingmen and the Elderly -- Part III Foundations for a Maternalist Welfare State? -- Chapter 6 Expanding the Separate Sphere: Women's Civic Action and Political Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 7 Safeguarding the "Mothers of the Race": Protective Legislation for Women Workers -- Chapter 8 An Unusual Victory for Public Benefits: The "Wildfire Spread" of Mothers' Pensions -- Chapter 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 I9 I O -- Appendix 2 Endorsements of Mothers' Pensions by Women's Groups: Sources for Table 9 and Figure 27 -- Notes -- Index |
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