Regulating the lives of women : social welfare policy from colonial times to the present / Mimi Abramovitz.
1996
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Author
Title
Regulating the lives of women : social welfare policy from colonial times to the present / Mimi Abramovitz.
Published
Boston : South End Press, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
HV699 .A27 1996
Edition
Revised edition.
ISBN
9780896085527 (alk. paper)
089608552X (alk. paper)
9780896085510 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0896085511 (pbk. : alk. paper)
089608552X (alk. paper)
9780896085510 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0896085511 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 411 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
OCoLC)34839622
(OCoLC)34839622
(OCoLC)34839622
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1
1
A Feminist Perspective on the Welfare State
13
2
The Colonial Family Ethic: The Development of Families, the Ideology of Women's Roles, and the Labor of Women
45
3
Women and the Poor Laws in Colonial America
75
4
"A Woman's Place is in the Home": The Rise of the Industrial Family Ethic
107
5
Women and the Nineteenth Century Relief
137
6
Poor Women and Progressivism: Protective Labor Law and Mothers' Pensions
181
7
The Great Depression and the Social Security Act: The Emergence of the Modern Welfare State
215
8
Old Age Insurance
241
9
Unemployment Insurance
273
10
Aid to Families with Dependent Children: Single Mothers in the Twentieth Century
313
11
Restoring the Family Ethic: The Assault on Women and the Welfare State in the 1980s and 1990s
349
Conclusion
391
Index
399