Public Pensions : Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 /

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"In Public Pensions, Susan M. Sterett traces the legal and constitutional structures underlying early social welfare programs in the United States. Sterett explains the status of state and local government payments for public servants and the poor from the mid-nineteenth century until the Great...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sterett, Susan Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
State governments > Officials and employees > Pensions.
Local officials and employees > Pensions.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Fonctionnaires locaux > Pensions > États-Unis > Histoire.
Gouvernements d'États federes > Fonctionnaires > Pensions > États-Unis > Histoire.
Local officials and employees > Pensions > United States > History.
State governments > Officials and employees > Pensions > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Social welfare in the states
  • Independence and dependence under the public purpose doctrine
  • Payments to firemen and soldiers, 1854-1876
  • Military pensions in the courts, 1877-1923
  • Civil service pensions, 1883-1924
  • Mothers' pensions in the courts, 1911-1923
  • Pensions for the blind and workmen's compensation, 1906-1917
  • Old age pensions, 1911-1937.

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