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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... child labor amendment, the committee's most consequential and contentious ... federal social welfare legislation? An examination of the WICC's political ... child-related legislation and to design state solutions to address the needs of ...
... child labor amendment, that were more overtly class oriented and thus much ... federal solutions to social and industrial problems, solutions manufacturers ... child labor amendment, that called for greater federal responsibility for ...
... workers, and the abolition of child labor.35 The later formation of the YWCA's industrial clubs, whose membership ... federal government to assume greater responsibility for human welfare.“ Women's Progressive-era voluntary organizations ...
... Labor jAFLj; assisted strikes led by female workers in the textile, clothing ... 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 ...
... child-related health measures, as they offered the easiest opening wedge through which to expand federal ... labor. As Kriste Lindenmeyer points out, the Progressive-era child welfare movement was inspired by the new identification of ...
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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 |