The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30University of Illinois Press, 2010. 10. 1. - 272페이지 The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse Jan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate activities around women's reform. Encompassing nearly every major national women's organization of its time, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC) evolved into a powerful lobbying force for the legislative agendas of more than twelve million women. Critics and supporters alike came to recognize it as "the most powerful lobby in Washington." Examining the WJCC's most consequential and contentious campaigns, Wilson traces how the group's strategies, rhetoric, and success generated congressional and grassroots support for their far-reaching, progressive reforms. But the committee's early achievements sparked a reaction by big business that challenged and ultimately limited the programs these women envisioned. Using the WJCC as a lens, Wilson analyzes women's political culture during the 1920s. She also sheds new light on the initially successful ways women lobbied for social legislation, the limitations of that process for pursuing class-based reforms, and the enormous difficulties the women soon faced in trying to expand public responsibility for social welfare. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White |
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... benefits to citizens?4 Second, what factors ultimately contributed to the defeat of the first grassroots movement, as represented by the WICC, to obtain federal social welfare legislation? An examination of the WICC's political ...
... benefits for women, children, and wage earners. In a decade of political conservatism and interest-group politics ... benefit society as a whole. By continuing to call for a greater federal role in human welfare, they helped ensure the ...
... benefit a particular class or to endorse legislation that expanded the federal government's role in industry and human welfare. Yet the state's limited ability to address social and economic problems actually strengthened the power of ...
... benefits of partisan participation, McCormick privately expressed frustration with the lack of women's equal representation in the Republican Party. In I920, McCormick had opposed the adoption of a rule that would establish equal ...
... benefits, old-age pensions, child labor legislation, and a variety of social reform measures. More than any other member organization, the National Consumers' League brought to the WICC a commitment to securing federal solutions to ...
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3 Opposition to the State Campaign for SheppardTowner 192123 | 50 |
4 The Crusade for the Child Labor Amendment 192224 | 66 |
Illustrations follow page 92 | 92 |
5 Allies and Opponents during the Battle for Ratification 1924 | 93 |
6 Defeat of the Child Labor Amendment 192426 | 110 |
8 The Impact of RightWing Attacks on the WJCC and Its Social Reform Agenda 192430 | 148 |
Conclusion | 171 |
Appendixes | 175 |
Notes | 183 |
Bibliography | 221 |
Index | 239 |
back cover | 251 |
7 The Struggle to Save the SheppardTowner Act 192630 | 133 |