Protecting Soldiers and Mothers The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States

Name: Protecting Soldiers and Mothers The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
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ISBN: 9780674717664

ISBN-10: 067471766X

ISBN-13: 9780674717664

Edition: 1992

Authors: Theda Skocpol

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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…

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List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Theda Skocpol is professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government.



Introduction


Understanding the Origins of Modern Social Provision in the United States


A Precocious Social Spending Regime



Patronage Democracy and Distributive Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century



Public Aid for the Worthy Many: The Expansion of


Benefits for Veterans of the Civil War



The Failure of a Paternalist Welfare State



Reformist Professionals as Advocates of Workingmen's Insurance



Help for the "Army of Labor"? Trade Unions and Social Legislation



Progressive Era Politics and the Defeat of Social Policies for Workingmen and the Elderly



Foundations for a Maternalist Welfare State?



Expanding the Separate Sphere: Women's Civic Action and Political Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century



Safeguarding the "Mothers of the Race": Protective Legislation for Women Workers



An Unusual Victory for Public Benefits: The "Wildfire Spread" of Mothers' Pensions



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