From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967University of North Carolina Press, 2000 - 320 páginas During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches. Despite the stereotypical image of the lodge as the exclusive domain of white men, fraternalism cut across race, class, and gender lines to include women, African Americans, and immigrants. Exploring the history and impact of fraternal societies in the United States, David Beito uncovers the vital importance they had in the social and fiscal lives of millions of American families. Much more than a means of addressing deep-seated cultural, psychological, and gender needs, fraternal societies gave Americans a way to provide themselves with social-welfare services that would otherwise have been inaccessible, Beito argues. In addition to creating vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor and in the working class, they made affordable life and health insurance available to their members and established hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the elderly. Fraternal societies continued their commitment to mutual aid even into the early years of the Great Depression, Beito says, but changing cultural attitudes and the expanding welfare state eventually propelled their decline. |
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Introduction | 1 |
This Enormous Army | 5 |
John Jordan Upchurch | 13 |
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AALL American annual Basye Bolivar County charity Chicago City Committee compulsory insurance Congress of America Contract Practice Daughters of Tabor Eagle Magazine economic ethnic Federation folder Fraternal Insurance Fraternal Life Insurance Fraternal Monitor fraternal orders fraternal societies fraternalists Freemasonry friendly societies Friendship Clinic funeral benefits Garrett Hart Papers Health Insurance Independent Order institutions insurance orders insurance societies interview Journal Knights and Daughters Knights of Pythias Labor Ladies Review lodge doctor lodge practice LOTM Loyal Order Maccabees McKenzie Medicine membership Mississippi Moose International Mooseheart mothers Mound Bayou mutual aid National Fraternal Congress Negro Nickel a Month Order of Friendship Order of Moose Oronhyatekha orphanage patients percent physicians policies Proceedings Report Ritual SBA home Security Benefit Association sick and funeral sick benefits Smith Social Insurance social welfare Study Taborian Hospital tion U.S. Department University Press UOTR Walker women Workmen's Circle York
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