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The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State - Hardcover

Quadagno, Jill

 
9780226699233: The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226699234 ISBN 13: 9780226699233
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Why did the United States lag behind Germany, Britain, and Sweden in adopting a national plan for the elderly? When the Social Security Act was finally enacted in 1935, why did it depend on a class-based double standard? Why is old age welfare in the United States still less comprehensive than its European counterparts? In this sophisticated analytical chronicle of one hundred years of American welfare history, Jill Quadagno explores the curious birth of old age assistance in the United States. Grounded in historical research and informed by social science theory, the study reveals how public assistance grew from colonial-era poor laws, locally financed and administered, into a massive federal bureaucracy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jill Quadagno holds the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar's chair in Social Gerontology at Florida State University. She is the editor ofAging, the Individual, and Society and Social Bonds in Later Life and the author ofAging in Early Industrial Society and The Family in Various Cultures.

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226699234
ISBN 13 
9780226699233
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
268
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