The Rise of the Military Welfare State /

The Rise of the Military Welfare State / / Jennifer Mittelstadt.

After Vietnam the army promised its all-volunteer force a safety net long reserved for career soldiers: medical and dental care, education, child care, financial counseling, housing assistance, legal services. Jennifer Mittelstadt shows how this unprecedented military welfare system expanded at a ti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Mittelstadt, Jennifer,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 13 halftones, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION: The Army Takes Care of Its Own
  • 1. Army Benefits in a Free Market Era
  • 2. Is Military Service a Job?
  • 3. The Threat of a Social Welfare Institution
  • 4. Supporting the Military in Reagan’s America
  • 5. Army Wives Demand Support
  • 6. Securing Christian Family Values
  • 7. A Turn to Self-Reliance
  • 8. Outsourcing Soldier and Family Support
  • EPILOGUE: Army Welfare at War in the Twenty-First Century
  • APPENDIX. ABBREVIATIONS. NOTES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX
  • Appendix
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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