Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental inst…
Readers will be surprised at many of the findings and arguments of this volume. Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to governmental social spending. When universal social programs jointly benefit the middle class and the poor, she shows, Americans sinc…
"Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor--- the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century--- Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institut…
"Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor--- the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century--- Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institut…
This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could tr…
