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Online-Ressource (299 p.)
ISBN:
9780226303925
Serie:
Women in Culture and Society
Inhalt:
The first study to explore the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first public welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families. Chicago initiated the largest mothers' pension program in the United States in 1911. Evolving alongside movements for industrial justice and women's suffrage, the mothers' pension movement hoped to provide "justice for mothers" and protection from life's insecurities. However, local politics and public finance derailed the policy, and most women were required to earn. Widows were more likely to receive pensions tha
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Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Defining the Problems of "Dependent Motherhood"; 2 The Structure of Public Provision: Gender and Race in Chicago's Welfare System; 3 Gender and Social Policy: The Origins of Mothers' Pension Policy in lllinois; 4 The Politics of Welfare Reform; 5 The Economies of Mothers' Pensions; Conclusion; Appendix: Legislative and Judicial Changes in the Illinois' Aid to Mothers' Law; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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ISBN 9780226303918
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ISBN 9780226303932
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform : Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929
Sprache:
Englisch
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