The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State by Jill Quadagno

The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State

Jill Quadagno

268 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

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Why did the United States lag behind Germany, Britain, and Sweden in adopting a national plan for the elderly? When the Social Security Act was finally enacted in 1935, why did it depend on a class-based double standard? Why is old age welfare in ...

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