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The New Deal was not the same deal for men and women - a finding strikingly demonstrated in Dividing Citizens. The book provides a historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life. In her examination of the impact of New Deal social and labor policies on the organization and character of U.S. citizenship, Suzanne Mettler offers an incisive analysis of the formation and implementation of the pillars of the modern welfare state: the Social Security Act, including Old Age and Survivors' Insurance, Old Age Assistance, Unemployment Insurance,…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2018Cornell University Press · 256 pages · 9781501728822
- Other · English · 1998Cornell University Press · 239 pages · 9780801433290
Sex discrimination against womenPolitics and governmentNew Deal, 1933-1939Social policyHistoryFederal governmentSex role in the work environmentSex discrimination in employment