From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 by David T. Beito

From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967

David T. Beito

336 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics informative slow-paced

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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches. Despite the stereotypical image of the lodge as the ...

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