10. April 7: Social Policy, Child History and the Regulatory State
Guest: Kriste Lindenmeyer
Readings:
Judith Sealander, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America’s Young in the Twentieth Century
Jacob S. Hacker, “Bringing the welfare state back in: the promise (and perils) of the new social welfare history,” Journal of Policy History 17(1), 2005, 1-31.
Supplemental Readings:
Melissa - Kriste Lindenmeyer, The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood and Youth during the Great Depression, 2006
Joe Austin and Michael Nevin Willard, eds., Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth Century
Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers And Mothers : The Political Origins of Social Policy in The United States, 1992
Barb - Kriste Lindenmeyer, "A Right to Childhood:" The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-1946. 1997.
Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: the Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920, 1982
Lori - Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State
Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Steven Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood 2004.
Robert H. Bremner, The Discovery of Poverty in the United States 1992
Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1991
Joseph Illick, American Childhoods
Linda Gordon, Pitied but not entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935, 1994
More Resources:
H-Childhood an edited electronic network focused on the history of childhood and youth
H-State H-State encourages scholarly discussion of welfare state and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.
Journal of Policy History Available through the Library Research Port