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Commentary: Deborah A. Stone, Russell L. Hanson, Sonya Michel, and Ira Katznelson

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Conference Panel: On Theda Skocpol's Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
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Studies in American Political Development , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1994 , pp. 111 - 139
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1. This is a quotation from Riordan, William, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963, orig. 1905)Google Scholar, as cited in Skocpol, Theda, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origin of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 98.Google Scholar

2. See especially Mink, Gwendolyn, “The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State,”Google Scholar and Nelson, Barbara Jean, “The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' Aid,” both in Gordon, Linda, ed., Women, The State, and Welfare (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 92–122 (Mink) and 123–151 (Nelson).Google Scholar

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4. Two of Linda Gordon's essays are rich with details of the kinds of jobs women obtained – and created for themselves – in the Progressive era, though political/economic incorporation of women is certainly not the point of either article. See Gordon, , “Social Insurance and Public Assistance: The Influence of Gender in Welfare Though in the United States, 1890–1935,” American Historical Review 97 (02 1992): 19–54Google Scholar; and Gordon, , “Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism, 1890–1945,” Journal of American History, 78 (09 1991): 559–590.Google Scholar

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