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Recommended Reading

 

Please add to the list below of books and articles you'd recommend. Full bibliographic information not essential, but make sure you sign your name.

 

 

European welfare state formation (Margaret O'Mara)

 

Allen, Ann. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

 

Baldwin, Peter. The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases in the European Welfare State, 1875‑1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Mentioned in class; argues that middle class was instrumental in state formation.

 

Dickinson, Edward. The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

 

deSwaan, Abram. In the Care of the State: New York: Health Care, Education, and Welfare in Europe and America During the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 1988.

 

Dwork, Deborah. War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children. London: Tavistock, 1987.

 

Esping-Andersen, Gosta, Martin Rein, and Lee Rainwater, eds. Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy: The Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1987.

 

Evans, Eric J. Social Policy, 1830-1914. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.

 

Flora, Peter and A. Heidenheimer, eds. The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America. London: Transaction Books, 1981.

 

Hon Hung, Young-Sun. Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919‑1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

 

Lees, Lynn Hollen. Solidarities of Strangers: the English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

 

Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

 

 

Women's Organizations and the Creation of Social Policy (Steve Beda)

 

After reading Skocpol, these readings came to mind which some of you might find useful...

 

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

 

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

 

 

Two Books I will likely be referencing this entire quarter (Steve Beda)

 

You've already heard me talk about them, and I'm sure I'll reference them again...

 

Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

 

 

American Politics/Political Economy from 1870 to 1920 (Ben Piggot)

 

Dealing with politics from a broader, more "structural" perspective:

 

Elizabeth Sanders, The Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

 

Richard Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

 

Martin Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

 

 

More Gilded Age and Progressive Era Historiography (Margaret O'Mara)

 

Robert Johnston, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in the Progressive Era (2003)

 

Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America (1977)

 

Michael McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The Urban North, 1865-1928 (1986)

 

David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge 1987)

 

Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982) - this is also listed as additional reading on the syllabus, but reiterated here as it is something of a companion piece to Skocpol

 

Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982)

 

 

History of Institutions in the United States (Margaret O'Mara)

 

Some of the works I mentioned in class as we discussed Katz' In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

 

David Rothman, Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and its Alternatives in Progressive America (1980)

 

William Graebner, The History of Retirement (1980) (example of age-grading of society; still a very understudied area)

 

Gerald Grob, Mental Institutions in America (1973) (shows how process of institutionalization created profession of psychiatry – very good at showing process)

 

Charles Rosenberg, The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (1987) (also emph stigmatizing distinction between public and private)

 

Eric Schneider, In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston (1992)

 

Rosemary Stevens, In Sickness and in Wealth: Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (1989)

Viviana Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child (1993)

 

Urban History, Urban Infrastructure (Margaret O'Mara)

After reading about Progressive era urban infrastructure et al in Rodgers, you may be interested in the following other readings in urban history (US-focused, largely pre-1945)

URBANIZATION AND HISTORY

 

Monkkonen, Eric H. America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780‑1980. Berkeley: California, 1988.

 

Schlesinger, Arthur M. “The City in American History.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 27 (June 1940): 43-66.

 

Tilly, Charles. “What Good Is Urban History?” Journal of Urban History 22 (1996) 702-19.

 

Wade, Richard C. The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830. Harvard, 1959.

 

 

 

SPACE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

 

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: Norton, 1992.

 

Hershberg, Theodore, ed. Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the Nineteenth Century. New York: 1981.

 

Katz, Michael B., Michael K. Doucet, and Mark J. Stern. The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge: Harvard, 1981.

 

Katznelson, Ira. City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States. New York: Pantheon, 1981.

 

Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Oxford, 1986.

 

Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants

 

in Detroit, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982.

 

AND I'LL ADD THESE TWO (POST WWII) (Steve Beda)

 

Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (London: Verso, 2006).

 

Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princton: Princeton University Press, 2003)

 

 

 

URBAN LANDSCAPES

 

Boyer, M. Christine. Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning. Cambridge: Harvard, 1983.

 

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Landscapes: Selected Writings. New York, 1970.

 

Page, Max. The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1999.

 

Shammas, Carole. “The Space Problem in Early United States Cities.” William and Mary Quarterly 57: 3 (July 2000), 505-542.

 

Wilson, William H. The City Beautiful Movement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989.

 

 

 

THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND MORAL REFORM

 

Boyer, Paul. Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Harvard, 1978.

 

Meranze, Michael. Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1996.

 

Ryan, Mary. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: California, 1997.

 

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Religion and the Rise of the American City: The New York City Mission Movement, 1812-1870. Ithaca: Cornell, 1971.

 

 

 

INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOUSING

 

Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

 

Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999.

 

Tarr, Joel A. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron: University of Akron, 1996.

 

Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900. Cambridge: Harvard, 1962.

 

 

Cross-Class Alliances (Steve Beda)

 

Just read this and thought it was important in relation to Swenson:

 

Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), esp. Ch. 3 "A Labor-Management Accord?"

 

 

Some Economic and Welfare State Statistics - International Comparisons (Ben Piggot)

 

(wasn't really sure where to post this, but I thought these stats would be very interesting)

 

They are drawn from two useful books discussing political economy in the contemporary era:

 

Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)

 

Jonas Pontusson, Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe and Liberal America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005)

 

Union Density, 1980 vs. 2000 (generally contracts - the results of globalization/neo-liberalism?):

Denmark, 79% vs. 74%

Finland, 69% vs. 76%

Norway, 59% vs. 54%

Sweden, 80% vs. 79%

Austria, 57% vs. 37%

Belgium, 54% vs. 56%

Germany, 35% vs. 25%

Netherlands, 35% vs. 23%

Switzerland, 31% vs. 18%

Australia, 48% vs. 25%

Canada, 35% vs. 28%

Ireland, 57% vs. 38%

New Zealand, 69% vs. 23%

United Kingdom, 51% vs. 31%

United States, 22% vs. 13%

France, 18% vs. 10%

Italy, 50% vs. 35%

Japan, 31% vs. 22%

 

Total Public Spending on Social Prorgams as Percentage of GDP, 1980 vs. 2001 (generally expands - perhaps surprising, in an era of conservative political ascendancy, with a concomitant decline in union membership - suggestive of Swenson's book):

Denmark 28.7% vs. 27.7%

Finland, 17.5% vs. 23.9%

Norway, 17.9% vs. 23.1%

Sweden, 27.6% vs. 27.5%

Austria, 22.5% vs. 25.5%

Belgium, 24.1% vs. 25.9%

Germany, 23.0% vs. 26.3%

Netherlands, 26.3% vs. 20.3%

Australia, 11.3% vs. 17.6%

Canada, 14.0% vs. 17.4%

Ireland, 17.0% vs. 13.1%

New Zealand, 16.6% vs. 18.0%

United Kingdom, 17.3% vs. 21.5%

United States, 13.1% vs. 14.6%

France, 21.1% vs. 27.2%

Italy 18.4% vs. 23.9%

Japan, 10.2% vs. 16.6%

 

 

Unemployment Rates, 2000-2003:

Denmark, 4.8%

Finland, 9.3%

Norway, 3.9%

Sweden, 5.3%

Austria, 4.0%

Belgium, 7.3%

Germany, 8.4%

Netherlands, 3.0%

Switzerland, 3.2%

Australia, 6.4%

Canada, 7.3%

Ireland, 4.3%

New Zealand, 5.3%

United Kingdom, 5.1%

United States, 5.1%

France, 9.0%

Italy, 9.1%

Japan, 5.0%

 

 

There's a lot more stats where these came from too . . . Check out the above books for more

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