Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Name: Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State
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ISBN: 9780226923499

ISBN-10: 0226923495

ISBN-13: 9780226923499

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michele Landis Dauber

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Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR’s relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to a long tradition—dating back to 1790 and now largely forgotten—of federal aid to victims of disaster. InThe Sympathetic State, Michele Landis Dauber recovers this crucial aspect of American history, tracing the roots of the modern American welfare state beyond the New Deal and the Progressive Era back to the earliest days of the republic when relief was forthcoming for the victims of wars, fires, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Drawing on a…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.100

Michele Landis Dauberis professor of law and (by courtesy) sociology and the Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar at Stanford University.



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Dedication: A Human Contrivance


Introduction Disaster Relief and the Welfare State



Building the Sympathetic State



Innovations



The Spreading Delta



Crafting the Depression



The Bomb-Proof Power



The Well-Beaten Path



We Lost Our All


Postscript Living in a Sympathetic State


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index