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Joanne L. Goodwin, Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform:Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911–1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii + 284 pp. $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2001

Alec Campbell
Alec Campbell
Affiliation:
Colby College
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Abstract

Mothers' pensions were an important chapter in the story of American welfare state development. Thus far scholars have focused their analysis at the national level. However, fiscal and administrative control over pensions typically remained at the local level. Because of this, an understanding of the implementation and consequences of mothers' pensions requires the sort of local-level analysis undertaken by Joanne Goodwin.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 55 , April 1999 , pp. 188 - 190
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© 1999 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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