Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Selected Articles on Mothers' Pensions
SELECTED ARTICLES ON MOTHERS PENSIONS
Author: EDNA DEAN. BULLOCKPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033132777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selected Articles on Mothers' Pensions
Author: Selected Articles on Social Insurance
Author: Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Company ; London : Grafton
ISBN:
Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Mother-Work
Author: Molly Ladd-TaylorPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States. Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, "women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving," motivated women's public activism and "maternalist" ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.
Selected Articles on Old Age Pensions
Author: Lamar Taney BemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old age pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Social Meaning of Money
Author: Viviana A. ZelizerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069123700X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: The White Welfare State
Author: Deborah E. WardPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472024884
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The White Welfare State challenges common misconceptions of the development of U.S. welfare policy. Arguing that race has always been central to welfare policy-making in the United States, Deborah Ward breaks new ground by showing that the Mothers' Pensions--the Progressive-Era precursors to modern welfare programs--were premised on a policy of racial discrimination against blacks and other minorities. Ward's rigorous and thoroughly documented analysis demonstrates that the creation and implementation of the mothers' pensions program was driven by debates about who "deserved" social welfare and not who needed it the most. "In The White Welfare State, Deborah Ward assembles a powerful array of documentary and statistical evidence to reveal the mechanisms, centrality, and deep historical continuity of racial exclusion in modern 'welfare' provision in the United States. Bringing unparalleled scrutiny to the provisions and implementation of state-level mothers' pensions, she argues persuasively that racialized patterns of welfare administration were firmly entrenched in this Progressive Era legislation, only to be adopted and reinforced in the New Deal welfare state. With rigorous and clear-eyed analysis, she pushes us to confront the singular role of race in welfare's development, from its early 20th-century origins to its official demise at century's end." --Alice O'Connor, University of California at Santa Barbara "This is a richly informative and arresting work. The White Welfare State will force a reevaluation of the role racism has played as a fundamental feature in even the most progressive features of the American welfare state. Written elegantly, this book will provoke a wide-ranging discussion among social scientists, historians, and students of public policy." --Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University "This book offers an original and absorbing account of early policies that shaped the course of the American welfare state. It extends yet challenges extant interpretations and expands our understanding of the interconnections of race and class issues in the U.S., and American political development more broadly." --Rodney Hero, University of Notre Dame
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description