Pt I. A precocious social spending regime. Ch. .1 Patronage democracy and distributive public policies in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 2. Public aid for the worthy many: the expansion of benefits for veterans of the Civil War -- Pt II. The failure of a paternalist welfare state. Ch. 3. Reformist professionals as advocates of workingmen's insurance -- Ch. 4. Help for the "Army of labor"? Trade unions and social legislation -- Ch. 5. Progressive era politics and the defeat of social policies for workingmen and the elderly -- Pt III. Foundations for a maternalist welfare state? Ch. 6. Expanding the separate sphere: women's civic action and political reforms in the early twentieth century -- Ch. 7. Safeguarding the "mothers of the race": protective lefislation for women workers -- Ch. 8. An unusual victory for public benefits: the "Wildfire spread" of mothers' pensions -- Ch. 9. Statebuilding for mothers and babies: the Children's Bureau and the Sheppard-Towner Act -- Conclusion. America's first modern social policies and their legacies
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