Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State AUTH-191185 A third-time graduate student

A third-time graduate student

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It includes an afterword by the author's son

judged by Lola Haskins

Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State AUTH-191185 A third-time graduate studentA groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth century child labor laws, and how middle class and elite reformers made it happen The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth century labor movement and to policymakers' efforts to appeal to working class voters. But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier, in the