@Book{277044766,
author="Skocpol, Theda",
title="Protecting soldiers and mothers: the political origins of social policy in the United States",
year="1992",
publisher="Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press",
address="Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]",
keywords="Public welfare; United States; History; Social policy",
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.",
abstract="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",
note="Theda Skocpol",
note="@Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-693) and index",
isbn="0674717651",
language="English"
}