Josephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care policy that Americans are still having today. In this gripping biography, Robyn Muncy offers Roche's persistent progressivism as evidence for surprising continuities among the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society.
Muncy explains that Roche became the second-highest-ranking woman in the New Deal government after running a Colorado coal company in partnership with coal miners themselves. Once in office, Roche developed a national health plan that was stymied by World War II but enacted piecemeal during the postwar period, culminating in Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. By then, Roche directed the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund, an initiative aimed at bolstering the labor movement, advancing managed health care, and reorganizing medicine to facilitate national health insurance, one of Roche's unrealized dreams.
In Relentless Reformer, Muncy uses Roche's dramatic life story--from her stint as Denver's first policewoman in 1912 to her fight against a murderous labor union official in 1972--as a unique vantage point from which to examine the challenges that women have faced in public life and to reassess the meaning and trajectory of progressive reform.
Описание: Shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.
Название: Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America ISBN: 0230115071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230115071 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12244 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Название: Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America ISBN: 1137496649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137496645 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3825 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Описание: Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.
Описание: "We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique
Описание: In this volume, a group of distinguished historians revisit and revise many of the chestnuts of American political history. Blurring the boundaries between political, cultural, and economic history, the contributors raise penetrating questions and challenge readers` understanding of the broader narrative of twentieth-century U.S. history.
Автор: Coggins Название: Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century ISBN: 1107654661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107654662 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5318 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book argues that the strongest members of the international community have a decisive influence over whether today`s secessionists become countries tomorrow and that, most often, their support is conditioned on parochial political considerations.
Название: The Twentieth-Century Welfare State ISBN: 0333669207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333669204 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16376 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The welfare state has been one of the most significant developments in 20th-century Britain. This work narrates its principal changes and provides an introduction to issues of finance and funding, providers and users, and the role of the welfare state as a system of social stratification.
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