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Sto caricando le informazioni... From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 (edizione 2000)di David T. Beito
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Beito does a very good job exploring the number of ways in which traditional fraternal organizations, founded on the principles of mutual aid, promoted social welfare in the U.S. until the rise of the welfare state in the Great Depression. The widespread and achievements are indeed impressive. But he skirts very lightly around the very selective nature of mutual aid, which appears to weed out those most in need of aid. If even the fraternal organizations of the poor won't help these (the mentally ill, those in need of rehabilitation, those with a predisposition to illness), who will? Additionally, Beito's criticism of the concept of "service" in chapter 11 suggests an ideological prejudice in favor of the concept of self-interest, and has some very distasteful implications. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches. Despite the stereotypical image of the lodge as the exclusive domain of white men, fraternalism cut across race, class, and gender lines to include women, African Americans, and immigrants. Exploring the history and impact of fraternal societies in the United States, David Beito uncovers the vital importance they had in the social and fiscal lives of millions of American families. Much more than a means of addressing deep-seated cultural, psychological, and gender needs, fraternal societies gave Americans a way to provide themselves with social-welfare services that would otherwise have been inaccessible, Beito argues. In addition to creating vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor and in the working class, they made affordable life and health insurance available to their members and established hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the elderly. Fraternal societies continued their commitment to mutual aid even into the early years of the Great Depression, Beito says, but changing cultural attitudes and the expanding welfare state eventually propelled their decline. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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