Monthly Labor Review

Monthly Labor Review

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Published: 1988-02

Total Pages: 122

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.


Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

Author: Theda Skocpol

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1995-03-15

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780674717664

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Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country.