%0 Book
%T Protecting soldiers and mothers: the political origins of social policy in the United States
%A Skocpol, Theda
%D 1992
%I Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press
%C Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
%@ 0674717651
%G English
%F 277044766
%O Theda Skocpol
%O @Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-693) and index
%X 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
%L 361.60973
%K Public welfare
%K United States
%K History
%K Social policy
%9 Text