Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

by Skocpol, Theda

• ISBN13: 9780674717657
• ISBN10: 0674717651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

past, "Protecting Soldiers and Mothers" challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.

Table of Contents

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

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