Joan Underhill Hannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Underhill Hannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Underhill |
| FAMILY NAME | Hannon |
| SIGNATURE | HANNON J U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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The Wages of Motherhood
Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions…
Poor relief policy in antebellum New York state
The Generosity of Antebellum Poor Relief
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Poverty in the Antebellum Northeast
This paper documents a secular increase during the antebellum period in the fraction of New York's population that received public poor relief. The increase was concentrated among able-bodied adults who required only short-term assistance during periods of sickness or unemployment. Cross-sectional patterns suggest that the rise of market production and the spread of wage labor in both urban-industrial and rural-agricultural sectors, rather than u…
City Size and Ethnic Discrimination
Late nineteenth-century immigrants tended to concentrate in large cities despite the fact that they experienced less occupational mobility there than they did in small cities. This paper suggests that variation across cities in labor management systems and in the associated froms of discrimination may help to explain this apparent paradox. Analysis of data from Michigan's agricultural implements and iron-working industries in 1890 indicates that …
Ethnic discrimination in a 19th-century mining district
The Immigrant Worker in the Promised Land
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Ethnic discrimination in a 19th-century mining district
Poor relief policy in antebellum New York state
Poverty in the Antebellum Northeast
This paper documents a secular increase during the antebellum period in the fraction of New York's population that received public poor relief. The increase was concentrated among able-bodied adults who required only short-term assistance during periods of sickness or unemployment. Cross-sectional patterns suggest that the rise of market production and the spread of wage labor in both urban-industrial and rural-agricultural sectors, rather than u…
City Size and Ethnic Discrimination
Late nineteenth-century immigrants tended to concentrate in large cities despite the fact that they experienced less occupational mobility there than they did in small cities. This paper suggests that variation across cities in labor management systems and in the associated froms of discrimination may help to explain this apparent paradox. Analysis of data from Michigan's agricultural implements and iron-working industries in 1890 indicates that …
The Generosity of Antebellum Poor Relief
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Immigrant Worker in the Promised Land
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Immigrant Worker in the Promised Land
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
City Size and Ethnic Discrimination
Late nineteenth-century immigrants tended to concentrate in large cities despite the fact that they experienced less occupational mobility there than they did in small cities. This paper suggests that variation across cities in labor management systems and in the associated froms of discrimination may help to explain this apparent paradox. Analysis of data from Michigan's agricultural implements and iron-working industries in 1890 indicates that …
Ethnic discrimination in a 19th-century mining district
The Generosity of Antebellum Poor Relief
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Poverty in the Antebellum Northeast
This paper documents a secular increase during the antebellum period in the fraction of New York's population that received public poor relief. The increase was concentrated among able-bodied adults who required only short-term assistance during periods of sickness or unemployment. Cross-sectional patterns suggest that the rise of market production and the spread of wage labor in both urban-industrial and rural-agricultural sectors, rather than u…
Poor relief policy in antebellum New York state
The Wages of Motherhood
Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions…
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Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works)