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Public Pensions - Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,887
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Public Pensions - Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 (Hardcover, New): Susan M. Sterett

Public Pensions - Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 (Hardcover, New)

Susan M. Sterett

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In Public Pensions, Susan M. Sterett traces the legal and constitutional structures underlying early social welfare programs in the United States. Sterett explains the status of state and local government payments for public servants and the poor from the mid-nineteenth century until the Great Depression. The most visible public payments for service in the United States were directed to soldiers, who risked death for the nation. However, firemen, not soldiers, first captured local governments attention; social welfare programs for soldiers were modeled on firemen's pensions. The dangerous work of firefighting and of combat provided the fundamental legal analogy for courts as governments expanded pensions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nothing about the state court doctrine approving payments for dangerous, local service would allow pensions for indigent mothers and for the elderly, which states began to consider after 1910. Counties and railroads that objected to the new taxes could fight programs based on the old doctrine, established for firefighters, soldiers, and finally civil servants. State litigation provided one of the many grounds for contesting expanded welfare states in the early twentieth-century United States. Sterett demonstrates that state courts maintained a gendered division between the service that marked citizenship and the dependence that marked indigence, even during the promising ferment of the early twentieth century."

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Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2003
First published: 2003
Authors: Susan M. Sterett
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-3984-1
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General
Books > History > American history > General
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LSN: 0-8014-3984-1
Barcode: 9780801439841

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