Reflecting the growing interest in social policy history, this book provides a penetrating examination of the development of social policy in the twentieth-century America. An introductory chapter serving as an overview to the field is followed by seven original essays which explore the historical context for understanding the formulation, implementation, and administration of social policy. Robert Kelly's Foreword discusses the growth of policy history in recent years. In his introduction Donald Critchlow argues that "policy history" encompasses historical reconstructions of development in particular social policy areas and attempts to make overall sense of policy-making processes. The chapters are presented in two sections. The first, Reconstructions of Policy Developments, includes W. Andrew Achenbaum's account of federal policies toward the aged since 1920; Brian Balogh's discussion of the emergence of the Social Security Board as a political actor, from 1935 to 1939; and Judith Sealander's examination of policy formation and women's issues between 1940 and 1980. In the second section, The Historical and Institutional Contexts of Policy-making, Morton Keller addresses social policy and the liberal state in twentieth-century America; Jack L. Walker examines interests, political parties, and policy formation in the American democracy; and Edward Berkowitz concludes with an essay on social welfare and the American state.With studies representative of the best work in the historical analysis of social policy, this volume will be of interest to scholars in history, political science, and public policy, as well as to educated laymen seeking to understand social policy as it has emerged in modern America.

Federal Social Policy: The Historical Dimension

History

Hawley, Ellis W.

Critchlow, Donald T.

Americas

Penn State University Press

This text discusses that time in US history often referred to as "the period between the wars". A "New Era", known for the failure of the League of Nations, prohibition and the Depression, it is often seen as a frivolous interlude between two great wars. Ellis Hawley sees this era as characterized by efforts to adapt the war experience to peacetime problems - an era that was innovative - one that led US citizens to search for a new liberalism, which was to be realized through corporative institutions.

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933

St Martins Pr

This book reexamines America's historical development during the years from 1917 to 1933, focusing in particular on wartime mobilization and action, the rise and collapse of the world's first mass -consumption economy, and the continued search for a modern managerial order geared to the realization of liberal ideas.

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 [The St. Martin's Series in Twentieth Century United States History]

St.Martin's Press

The massive depression of the 1930's detonated the crisis between harsh reality and the vision of material abundance and economic security created by the American industrial order. Amid widespread poverty there was increasing concentration of economic power and loss of individual initiative. Professor Hawley traces the pattern of this conflict. He analyzes the National Recovery Administration, the sources and nature of the antitrust ideology, the rise of Keynesianism, the confusion within the Roosevelt Administration during the recession of 1937-38, and the government career of Thurman Arnold. Attention is given to the administrators of the New Deal and to the beliefs, pressures, and symbols that affected their policy decisions. How and why these ideas and pressures produced policies that were economically inconsistent yet politically workable is also explained.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton Legacy Library)

Business & Money

Economics

Princeton University Press

The massive depression of the 1930's detonated the crisis between harsh reality and the vision of material abundance and economic security created by the American industrial order. Amid widespread poverty there was increasing concentration of economic power and loss of individual initiative. Professor Hawley traces the pattern of this conflict. He analyzes the National Recovery Administration, the sources and nature of the antitrust ideology, the rise of Keynesianism, the confusion within the Roosevelt Administration during the recession of 1937-38, and the government career of Thurman Arnold. Attention is given to the administrators of the New Deal and to the beliefs, pressures, and symbols that affected their policy decisions. How and why these ideas and pressures produced policies that were economically inconsistent yet politically workable is also explained. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The massive depression of the 1930's detonated the crisis between harsh reality and the vision of material abundance and economic security created by the American industrial order. Amid widespread poverty there was increasing concentration of economic power and loss of individual initiative. Professor Hawley traces the pattern of this conflict. He analyzes the National Recovery Administration, the sources and nature of the antitrust ideology, the rise of Keynesianism, the confusion within the Roosevelt Administration during the recession of 1937-38, and the government career of Thurman Arnold. Attention is given to the administrators of the New Deal and to the beliefs, pressures, and symbols that affected their policy decisions. How and why these ideas and pressures produced policies that were economically inconsistent yet politically workable is also explained.
Originally published in 1966.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence

A re-issue of this classic study of President Roosevelt's adminstrative policy toward monopoly during the period of the New Deal, updated with a new introduction by the author.

Fordham University Press

A re-issue of this classic study of President Roosevelt's adminstrative policy toward monopoly during the period of the New Deal, updated with a new introduction by the author.

America at the beginning of 1917 was a nation mobilizing for war. It was also a nation potentially capable of developing the world's first mass consumption economy. Institutionally and ideologically it was a nation without the institutions capable of ensuring that the new sources of authority would be used to further the ends of liberal democracy and national progress. This highly regarded volume reexamines America's historical development during the years from 1917 to 1933, focusing in particular on wartime mobilization and action as well as the rise and collapse of the world's first mass consumption economy. Hawley also explores the continued search for a modern managerial order geared to the realization of liberal ideals during this period. Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Jeansonne, Transformation and Reaction: America 1921-1945 (ISBN 9781577663829) and Wilson, Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (ISBN 9780881337051).

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions 1917-1933

Waveland Pr Inc.

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Federal Social Policy: The Historical Dimension

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 [The St. Martin's Series in Twentieth Century United States History]

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton Legacy Library)

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton Legacy Library)

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton Legacy Library)

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton Legacy Library)

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions 1917-1933