Southern paternalism and the American welfare state economics, politics, and institutions in the South, 1865-1965
Using institutional economics, Professors Alston and Ferrie show how paternalism in Southern agriculture helped shape the growth of the American welfare state in the hundred years following the Civil War. It was an integral part of agricultural contracts prior to mechanization. Paternalism involved...
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Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1999
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Schriftenreihe: | Political economy of institutions and decisions
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The economics of paternalism
- The politics of maintaining paternalism
- Southern opposition to the Social Security Act
- Southern opposition to the Farm Security Administration
- The Bracero program and wartime farm labor legislation
- Mechanization and the disappearance of paternalism