Relentless Reformer : Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Muncy, Robyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Colección:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 108
Temas:
Progressivism (United States politics) > History > 20th century.
Women philanthropists > Colorado > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Cold War.
Colorado.
Columbia University.
Democratic Party.
Denver.
Edward Hale Bierstadt.
Ella Aspinwall Roche.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Great Depression.
John J. Roche.
Josephine Roche.
Medicaid.
Medicare.
National Recovery Administration.
National Youth Administration.
Nebraska.
Neligh.
New Deal progressives.
New Deal.
New York.
Public Health Service.
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company.
Roosevelt administration.
Social Security Act.
Treasury Department.
U.S. health care.
U.S. welfare state.
United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund.
Vassar.
Welfare Fund.
World War I.
World War II.
assistant treasury secretary.
biography.
childhood.
coal miners.
college-educated women.
conservatives.
economic downturn.
effectiveness.
feminism.
feminists.
gender barrier.
gender wage gap.
global war.
health care policy.
health care.
health policy.
labor movement.
labor policy.
labor unions.
labor war.
legacy.
liberals.
marriage.
mining company.
national health insurance.
national health plan.
policewoman.
political machine.
power.
progressive reform.
progressive women.
progressives.
progressivism.
public career.
public health.
social justice.
social movements.
social responsibility.
social welfare system.
unionization.
vacation.
women activists.
women's rights.
women's suffrage.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. First Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche'S Apprenticeship, 1886-1918
  • 1. Childhood in the West, Education in the East, 1886-1908
  • 2. Aspiring Feminist and Social Science Progressive, 1908-1912
  • 3. Emergence as a Public Leader, 1912-1913
  • 4. Seeking Fundamentals: The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914
  • 5. "Part of It All One Must Become": Progressive in Wartime, 1915-1918 79
  • Part II. First Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche'S New Departures, 1919-1932
  • 6. Work and Love in a Progressive Ebb Tide, 1919-1927
  • 7. Migrating to a "Totally New Planet": Roche Takes Over Rocky Mountain Fuel, 1927-1928
  • 8. "Prophet of a New and Wiser Social Order," 1929-1932
  • Part III. Second Burst of Progressive Reform: Height of Roche'S Renown, 1933-1948
  • 9. Working with the New Deal From Colorado, 1933-1934
  • 10. At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934-1939
  • 11. Generating a National Debate about Federal Health Policy, 1935-1939
  • 12. Unmoored during Wartime, 1939-1945
  • 13. Becoming a Cold War Liberal, 1945-1948
  • Part IV. Second Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche Builds a Private Welfare System in the Coalfields, 1948-1963
  • 14. Creating "New Values, New Realities" in the Coalfields, 1948-1956
  • 15. Democratic Denials and Dissent at the Miners' Welfare Fund, 1957-1963
  • Part V. Third Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche Reclaims the Full Progressive Agenda, 1960-1976
  • 16. Challenged and Redeemed by the New Progressivism, 1960-1972
  • 17. Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Select Primary Sources
  • Index

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