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Nothing about the state court doctrine approving payments for dangerous, local service would allow pensions for indigent mothers and for the elderly, which states began to consider after 1910. County commissioners and railroads that objected to the new taxes could fight programmes based on the old doctrine, established for firefighters, soldiers, and finally civil servants. State litigation provided one of the many grounds for contesting expanded welfare states in the early 20th century United States. Sterett demonstrates that state courts maintained a gendered division between the service that marked citizenship and the dependence that marked indigence, even during the promising ferment of the early 20th century.

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Constitutional & administrative law

• Full title: Public Pensions
• Subtitle: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937
• Author: Sterett, Susan M. (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Denver, USA)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780801439841
• ISBN: 9780801439841
• ID: 06272850
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 528 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 238 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. June 2003

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