Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Theda Skocpol
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1865-1930
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Isaac Max Rubinow, Henry Rogers Seager, Samuel Gompers, Florence Kelley, Louis D. Brandeis, Julia Lathrop, Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, William Hard
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Social issues, Women’s issues, Working class, Soldiers, Labor unions, Insurance, Economic assistance
- Locales: United States
Historians have long viewed the United States as a laggard in developing a modern welfare state. Compared with Western European industrial countries, U.S. provision of unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, and other federally funded social benefits came very late, taking shape only in the 1930’s with other New Deal programs. Explanations for this delay have included the weakness of working-class organization and American mistrust of government.
Theda Skocpol, in Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of social Policy in the United States, disagrees...
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