Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform / Edition 2

by Edward D. Berkowitz, Kim Mcquaid

Overview

Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation. The authors also draw upon previously unconsulted sources from government warehouses and archives to analyze the operation of early federal social welfare programs such as vocational rehabilitation. Their discussions range from those early programs to modern ones such as cost of living pay adjustments and social security disability benefits. This emphasis on the notion of the continuing development of welfare programs is a significant factor in the welfare state controversies—a factor often ignored by other historians and writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275927479
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/16/1988
Edition description:	Rev and Expande
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

EDWARD BERKOWITZ is Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Program in History and Public Policy at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

KIM MCQUAID is Associate Professor of History at Lake Erie College.

Table of Contents

A Newly Outrageous Fortune: A Private Social Welfare System Emerges in the Unites States, 1880-1910
The Role of Government, 1900-1920
An Atmosphere of Organization: The Rise of Welfare Capitalism, 1910-1930
Federal Social Welfare in the 1920s
Seeking a New Equilibrium: Responses to the Depression, 1930-1935
Social Security and the Creation of a Public Sector, 1935-1939
Different Worlds of War
Backing into the Future: Social Welfare in the 1950s
American Welfare Practice: Patterns of Continuity and Change
Bibliography
Index