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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 103–122.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Ben Zdencanovic Abstract This essay examines the early life and work of the Russian American social reformer Abraham Epstein, an advocate for old-age pensions and compulsory social insurance whose work as head of the American Association for Social Security helped lead to the passage of the 1935...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 75–102.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and the forms of social disorder it produced by disturbing normative families. The management of this disturbance became a key promise of the movement for old-age pensions in the 1920s, in which Progressive labor reformers and conservative workers’ and fraternal organizations combined in an effort to support...
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Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 86–110.
Published: 01 January 1989
..." was
widely discussed and received serious attention from political ac-
tors. Nevertheless, insofar as the feminists' campaign achieved any
practical results, it contributed only to the Widows' Pensions Act of
1925, a measure which accepted that wives needed benefits not as
independent citizens...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (57): 250–257.
Published: 01 October 1993
...-century polity stands the Grand
Army of the Republic (GAR). GAR members were Union veterans
of the Civil War, whose political power turned the war pension
system into what Skocpol calls “a kind of precocious social security
system for those U.S. citizens of a certain generation and region...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 13–36.
Published: 01 January 2021
... in the 1960s I was persuaded by my tutors, Professors Richard Titmuss and Brian Abel-Smith, two leaders in this field in Britain who were then advising the Labour government on pensions policy, to do a PhD on the history of British state pensions. I completed the thesis successfully but did not publish...
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Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (43): 112–119.
Published: 01 January 1989
... on the frequent gaps be-
tween the articulation, implementation, and reception of any given
policy. Quataert documented the ways in which German women
undermined the pension system by misleading investigators about
the extent of their activities as homeworkers in textiles. Ironically,
when these women...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2021
... expectations for old age in industrialized countries increasingly turned on waged work—and retirement from it. For advocates of large-scale systems of economic support for older adults, including old-age pensions and social insurance, the intensity of industrial production seemed to thrust older men...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (138): 82–107.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in Argentina to successfully draw on the same legal apparatus that grants pensions to victims of dictatorship under Santa Fe’s Provincial Law 13.298 (2012) to receive economic reparations. The 2012 law extends a monthly pension to people who were illegally detained between March 24, 1976, and December 10, 1983...
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United Airlines is For Lovers?: Flight Attendant Activism and the Family Values Economy in the 1990s
Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (112): 100–112.
Published: 01 January 2012
... be legally com-
pelled to offer the most expensive and important benefits — retirement and medical
insurance — forcing those items to be rolled into a new case pursuant to pension law
that would have to make its own, arduous way through the legal process. Neverthe-
less, and perhaps more importantly...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (61): 63–91.
Published: 01 January 1995
.... Walkowitz.
Liudmilla Kushch. Copyright @DanielJ. Walkowitz.
”NORMAL LIFE” IN THE NEW UKRAINE/71
Ivan Kushch (father of Gennady), a pensioner who still works at the
Kuibyshev Mine in the maintenance department...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (56): 127–136.
Published: 01 May 1993
... (Philadelphia: Temple, 1990), 103-33, suggests
that these effects were benign. Similarly, Joanne Goodwin, ”An American Experi-
ment in Paid Motherhood: The Implementation of Mothers’ Pensions in Early
Twentiethxentury Chicago,” Gender and History 4 (Autumn 19921, 32342; and
Molly Ladd Taylor, “Mother...
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Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (54): 110–126.
Published: 01 October 1992
... em-
ployment as well as generous pensions and other benefits. To
avoid extending these rights to former East German civil servants,
who are considered to be ideologically suspect, the Bonn govern-
ment has defined all former GDR federal civil servants as public
employees (Angestellte), who...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 145–165.
Published: 01 January 2021
... the city and many of us with Social Security or pensions are left with almost nothing.” 70 At the same time, TOOR activists faced significant challenges in organizing elderly residents. Many residential hotel tenants had mobility and health issues and could not attend meetings or demonstrations...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 112–115.
Published: 01 October 2004
... plenty of terror,
with innocent, defenseless people—from infants to pensioners—slaughtered delib-
erately as well as mistakenly. Some two thousand victims, well over half of the total
dead, were neither volunteers belonging to the various paramilitary formations...
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Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (81): 171–175.
Published: 01 October 2001
... to earn $100,000 a year playing the wise elder to eager
students for a few hours a week, get extended summer and winter vacations and sab-
baticals, read and write about your favorite topics and lock in a juicy TIAA-CREF
pension to boot...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 201–205.
Published: 01 January 1994
... wages. Women, the argument ran, were so domestically
inclined that when at work they always had home on their minds
and thus did an inferior job. Although the West German govern-
ment ran a major pension plan for its citizens, it treated women
unequally because they received consistently lower...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 43–76.
Published: 01 January 2007
...) the concession of pensions, jobs,
and other economic opportunities; and (c) legalistic formalities (resquicios lega-
les) including the often-cited principle “I obey but cannot comply” (se acata pero
no se cumple); and (3) pragmatism and elite political repacting. The premises of
this model are inherently...
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Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 244–249.
Published: 01 May 1991
... learned from the Nation, the
Polish Parliament voted by a four-to-one margin to cut off the
pensions and other rights of the one hundred surviving Polish
veterans of the International Brigade, which fought against fas-
cists in Spain. We were not surprised (though still disheartened)
to read...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 9–21.
Published: 01 January 2006
... provision and bet-
ter conditions for the blind. The Blind Persons’ Act introduced a pension for those
aged fifty and over, provided maintenance grants for residents of institutions and
those in the workshops, added capitation grants from central and local government
to augment workshop wages...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 123–144.
Published: 01 January 2021
... or lawyers had more options and could choose to retire or remain at work, depending on their financial needs, family situations, and personal preferences. 9 Life was undeniably difficult for many older wage earners, who generally were not hired for life and received no pension. 10 Women, who commonly...
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