Protecting soldiers and mothers : the political origins of social policy in the United States / Theda Skocpol.
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- 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
- 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 ElderlyPart 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 LegaciesAppendix 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.