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Author Skocpol, Theda.

Title Protecting soldiers and mothers : the political origins of social policy in the United States / Theda Skocpol.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  361.973 S628P    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 714 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-693) and index.
Contents Understanding the origins of modern social provision in the United States -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 mother's pensions -- Statebuilding for mothers and babies: the children's bureau and the Sheppard-Towner Act -- America's first modern social policies and their legacies.
Subject Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social policy.
Indexed Term Welfare services History
United States
ISBN 0674717651
9780674717657
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