The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work: Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Paul Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Work ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The New Deal

At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934–1939

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Muncy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
The New Deal

This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1934 to 1939. Serving as assistant secretary of the treasury in the New Deal government carried Roche to the height of her renown and power. Between 1934 and 1938, her central responsibility was health policy, but the full range of her involvement in the New Deal went well beyond that core focus. She also shaped one of the most significant pieces of federal legislation in the twentieth century, the Social Security Act, and oversaw the implementation of such New Deal programs as the National Youth Administration, all the while pushing for more effective regulation of industry and the unionization of American workers. As she dashed from one New Deal initiative to another, Roche was celebrated as an icon of female achievement who represented the new level of power achieved by women in politics and government during the 1930s.

The “Welfare Rights State” and the “Civil Rights State”: Policy Paradox and State Building in the Progressive Era

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen L. McDonagh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Governing System ◽  
National Perspective ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
The New Deal

An enduring contribution of the new institutionalism is its affirmation of the significance of the Progressive era. As a result, we have learned not only how the “big bang” explosion of welfare legislation in the New Deal rests upon structures and precedents set in the early twentieth-century decades, but also how this early reform period continues to influence contemporary policies and politics. Alan Dawley, Bruce Ackerman, and Morton Keller, for example, point to an activist state established in the Progressive era to check a laissez-faire governing system as the foundation of subsequent New Deal accomplishments upon which reformers built “where progressives had left off.” Theda Skocpol adds a cross-national perspective, showing how the American welfare state instituted in the early twentieth century evidenced a distinctive “maternalist” dynamic oriented toward addressing women's economic needs, in contrast to “paternalistic” norms in Western European nations assisting male workers.

scholarly journals The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Cowie ◽  
Nick Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
New Deal ◽  
American History ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract“The Long Exception” examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberration—a byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression—than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politics between the periods before the New Deal order and those after its decline than there is between the postwar era and the rest of American history. Indeed, by the early seventies the arc of American history had fallen back upon itself. While liberals of the seventies and eighties waited for a return to what they regarded as the normality of the New Deal order, they were actually living in the final days of what Paul Krugman later called the “interregnum between Gilded Ages.” The article examines four central themes in building this argument: race, religion, class, and individualism.

The Lost Link: Social Work in Early Twentieth‐Century Alcohol Policy

2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Roiblatt ◽  
Maria C. Dinis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Alcohol Policy ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

scholarly journals Cerco à liberdade: a complexa dinâmica do poder nos EUA

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Cecilia Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Deal ◽  
American Government ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The New Deal

<em><span>Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present</span></em><span>, publicado em 2015 pela prestigiosa Princeton University Press, se impõe como uma obra fundamental para todos os interessados em História dos Estados, como também o são dois livros anteriores do autor - <em>The rise and fall of the New Deal Order</em> (organizado em conjunto com Steve Fraser) e <em>The American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century.</em> Atualmente na Universidade de Cambridge, na Inglaterra, Gary Gerstle é sem dúvida nenhuma um dos maiores nomes da historiografia dos EUA, laureado com os mais relevantes prêmios ao longo de sua trajetória acadêmica no país. Após se notabilizar na História Social, enveredando por questões também caras à História Cultural, como a das identidades coletivas, Gerstle, com o livro em tela, contribui para o ímpeto recente da História Política, especificamente dos estudos sobre as instituições governamentais, tema que não despertou muito entusiasmo nos historiadores de sua geração. </span>

Working with the New Deal from Colorado, 1933–1934

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Muncy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
National Government ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
The U.S

This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1933 to 1934. Roche's experience at Rocky Mountain Fuel primed her for the New Deal. As Franklin Roosevelt's administration began to grapple in 1933 with the devastation caused by the Great Depression, Roche was asked to serve in several capacities. Early on, the most important was in the National Recovery Administration, an attempt to stabilize the U.S. economy through industry-wide economic planning. Shortly after that, Roche broke through yet another gender barrier by running for governor of Colorado. She took this bold step because the sitting state executive refused to cooperate with the relief programs of the New Deal, and Roche wanted Colorado effectively linked with the national government. She did not succeed, but her gubernatorial bid was nevertheless significant. It demonstrated both the centralizing force that Washington exerted through the New Deal and some of the bases for resistance. It also drew a direct line between progressivism in the early twentieth century and progressivism in the New Deal, highlighting a range of tactics for diminishing inequality that New Dealers brought straight from the Progressive Era into the 1930s.

NATO Retrospect

1961 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence S. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
The West ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Party Differences ◽  
The New Deal

NatoHas appeared under many labels since its creation — Guardian of Peace, Pawn of Power Politics, Savior of the West, and Harbinger of War. All of them probably have some validity. But no matter which sobriquet is most applicable, the most significant feature of the alliance may be that it has survived twelve years of continuous challenges. By its survival it has become the symbol of America's abandonment of isolationism. In an age in which foreign policy plays the kind of role in domestic politics that would have been unthinkable in the nineteenth century, NATO represents a coherence in foreign policy that transcends party differences. Conceived under the Republican 80th Congress, put into effect by President Truman and Secretary Acheson, and expanded by President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles, NATO now takes its place with the New Deal as a major factor in American life in the mid-twentieth century.

The Third American Conservation Movement: New Implications for Public Policy

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy O'Riordan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
American Nation

The American nation is presently caught in the throes of its third conservation movement. It is generally considered that the first American conservation movement in the United States took place during the period 1890–1920, with particular emphasis upon the first decade of the twentieth century, and the second was associated with the New Deal and subsequent policies of Franklin Roosevelt in the period 1933–43. The aim of this paper is to compare the development and the underlying philosophies of the present conservation movement in the United States with the growth and guiding principles of its two predecessors, and to follow this analysis through with a somewhat more normative examination of various implications for public policy which come to light.

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