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Könyv When Movements Matter Edwin Amenta

When Movements Matter

The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security

Szerző: Edwin Amenta
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Princeton University Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 8-11 napon belül
14 074 Ft
"When Movements Matter" accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells th...

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Szerző
Edwin Amenta
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2008
oldal
352
EAN
9780691138268
ISBN
0691138265
Enbook ID
04641488
Kiadó
Princeton University Press
Súly
482
Méretek
152 x 235 x 20

Teljes leírás

"When Movements Matter" accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan - a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a government-provided retirement stipend of $200 a month for every American over the age of sixty. Both the Townsend Plan, which organized two million older Americans into Townsend clubs, and the wider pension movement failed to win the generous and universal senior citizens' pensions their advocates demanded.But the movement provided the political impetus behind old-age policy in its formative years and pushed America down the track of creating an old-age welfare state. Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence, historical detail, and arresting images, Edwin Amenta traces the ups and downs of the Townsend Plan and its elderly leader Dr. Francis E. Townsend in the struggle to remake old age. In the process, Amenta advances a new theory of when social movements are influential. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that U.S. old-age policy was a result mainly of the Depression or farsighted bureaucrats. It also debunks the current view that America immediately embraced Social Security when it was adopted in 1935. And it sheds new light on how social movements that fail to achieve their primary goals can still influence social policy and the way people relate to politics.

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