Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xv
4. TABLES xvii
5. ILLUSTRATIONS xviii
6. Introduction Understanding the Origins of Modern Social Provision in the United States 1
7. Part I A Precocious Social Spending Regime
8. Chapter 1 Patronage Democracy and Distributive Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century 63
9. Chapter 2 Public Aid for the Worthy Many: The Expansion of Benefits for Veterans of the Civil War 102
10. Part II The Failure of a Paternalist Welfare State
11. Introduction 153
12. Chapter 3 Reformist Professionals as Advocates of Workingmen's Insurance 160
13. Chapter 4 Help for the "Army of Labor"? Trade Unions and Social Legislation 205
14. Chapter 5 Progressive Era Politics and the Defeat of Social Policies for Workingmen and the Elderly 248
15. Part III Foundations for a Maternalist Welfare State?
16. Introduction 311
17. Chapter 6 Expanding the Separate Sphere: Women's Civic Action and Political Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century 321
18. Chapter 7 Safeguarding the "Mothers of the Race": Protective Legislation for Women Workers 373
19. Chapter 8 An Unusual Victory for Public Benefits: The "Wildfire Spread" of Mothers' Pensions 424
20. Chapter 9 Statebuilding for Mothers and Babies: The Children's Bureau and the Sheppard-Towner Act 480
21. Conclusion America's First Modern Social Policies and Their Legacies 525
22. Appendix 1 Percentages of the Elderly in the States and the District of Columbia Receiving Civil War Pensions in I9 I O 541
23. Appendix 2 Endorsements of Mothers' Pensions by Women's Groups: Sources for Table 9 and Figure 27 543
24. Notes 557
25. Index 695