TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skocpol, Theda
PY  - 1992
DA  - 1992//
TI  - Protecting soldiers and mothers: the political origins of social policy in the United States
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Social policy
AB  - 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
SN  - 0674717651
LA  - English
N1  - Theda Skocpol
ID  - 277044766
ER  -