{"title":"Making the New Deal Stick? The Minimum Wage and American Political History","authors":"D. Gitterman","doi":"10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00355.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00355.X","url":null,"abstract":"THE AMERICAN WELFARE state has long been characterized as a “laggard” in comparative perspective.1 The conventional wisdom suggests that a conservative coalition of southern Democrats and Republicans successfully limited the development of American social policy. Nevertheless, the American political system somehow allowed programs like Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit to slip through. Indeed, federal policymakers achieved a range of social policy reforms between 1935 and the present despite the nation’s systematic favoring of the status quo and its fragmented political institutions.2 This essay, focusing on the federal minimum wage, examines the conventional wisdom on the constraints and limits imposed by the conservative coalition within twentieth-century American political history. The most well-known redistributive programs, the “big bangs” of the New Deal and the Great Society, were enacted in congresses with extraordinary Democratic majorities. A range of research holds that narrowly targeted","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"41 1","pages":"47-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85463597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Southern History in Global Perspective: Vagaries of War, Region, and Memory","authors":"Joan E. Cashin","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00347.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00347.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"11 4","pages":"425-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00347.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72300794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EDITOR'S NOTE","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00345.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00345.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"11 4","pages":"383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00345.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72300450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00351.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00351.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"11 4","pages":"495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00351.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72300789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lee's Lieutenants: The American South and the World","authors":"Peter A. Coclanis","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00348.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00348.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"11 4","pages":"441-461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00348.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72300787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Radicalism: African Americans and the Liberation Struggles in Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea, 1945–1949","authors":"Carol Anderson","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00346.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00346.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"11 4","pages":"385-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00346.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72300790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Never Mind the Dead Men”: The Damnation of Theron Ware and the Salvation of American Protestantism","authors":"David Mislin","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00349.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00349.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"11 4","pages":"463-491"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00349.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72300791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Radicalism: African Americans and the Liberation Struggles in Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea, 1945–1949","authors":"Carol Anderson","doi":"10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00346.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00346.X","url":null,"abstract":"In 1949, scholar W. E. B. Du Bois complained bitterly that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was useless in the fight to free Africa from colonialism because the association was just a “bourgeois set-up, afraid to do anything that is not respectable.”1 Indeed, historians’ understanding of one of the most significant transformations in the twentieth century, decolonization, often echoes Du Bois’s assessment that only “radicals” had the mettle to take on this battle for the right to self-determination.2","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"97 1","pages":"385-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84046939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lee's Lieutenants: The American South and the World","authors":"P. Coclanis","doi":"10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00348.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00348.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"32 1","pages":"441-461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89086058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Southern History in Global Perspective: Vagaries of War, Region, and Memory","authors":"Joan E. Cashin","doi":"10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00347.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1540-5923.2011.00347.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Historical Society","volume":"31 18 1","pages":"425-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86062857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}