This book shows how paternalism in Southern agriculture helped shape the growth of the welfare state.

These essays look at southern social customs within a single city in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the volume focuses on paternal

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with t

Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking s

This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transforme