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Tables of Contents for State and Society in Twentieth-Century America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures and tables
viii
1
Acknowledgements
viii
1
Preface
ix
2
List of abbreviations
xi
1. Introduction
1
11
State and society
1
8
Liberalism
9
3
2. State and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century America
12
32
The `lengthening arms of government'
12
9
A `stateless society'?
21
3
Popular politics
24
6
Gilded Age reform: Mugwumps and Populists
30
10
Epilogue: The `crisis of the 1890s'
40
4
3. Capital, Labour and the State, 1890-1920
44
38
The second industrial revolution
44
3
The remaking of the American working class
47
4
Patterns of industrial conflict
51
5
Organised labour and the state
56
4
`Business unionism'
60
4
Labour politics
64
6
Labour and the First World War
70
4
Whatever happened to the American Left?
74
8
4. Progressivism: The New Political Order
82
33
The riddle of progressivism
82
5
The paradox of antitrust
87
10
Railroad regulation
97
8
Pure food and drugs
105
4
The new political order
109
6
5. Patterns of Social Reform, 1890-1920
115
29
Introduction
115
1
Christian benevolence and `scientific philanthropy'
116
3
The `discovery of poverty'
119
4
Dimensions of social reform
123
7
Social insurance: `the next step'
130
4
Limitations of social reform
134
2
The social settlements: a `female dominion of reform'
136
4
Towards a maternalist welfare state
140
4
6. The 1920s
144
35
Prohibition
144
9
The politics of `normalcy'
153
6
Herbert Hoover's new era
159
3
Boom and bust
162
7
Depression America
169
3
The ordeal of Herbert Hoover
172
7
7. The New Deal and the Political Economy of Twentieth-Century America
179
39
Introduction
179
3
The New Deal on the land
182
10
NRA and the economics of scarcity
192
7
After Schechter
199
7
The New Deal and American politics
206
7
An evaluation
213
5
8. The Rise and Fall of Organised Labour
218
31
Introduction
218
1
The lean years
219
4
New Deal labour policy
223
6
The rise of the CIO
229
7
Labour and the Second World War
236
2
Unions in postwar America
238
4
The decline of organised labour
242
7
9. The Making of the Welfare State
249
27
Introduction
249
1
The problem of relief
250
5
Social insurance
255
7
The Social Security Act
262
7
After the New Deal
269
7
10. To the Great Society and Beyond
276
35
Introduction
276
1
The politics of consensus
277
3
Kennedy and Johnson
280
5
Civil rights
285
11
The War on Poverty
296
7
Liberalism in decline
303
8
11. State and Society in Twentieth-Century America
311
13
Liberalism and its discontents
311
5
The natural history of Leviathan
316
8
Glossary
324
9
Further Reading
333
13
Index
346