TY - BOOK AU - Amenta,Edwin TI - When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security T2 - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives SN - 9780691221212 AV - HD7105.35.U6 U1 - 368.4/300973 22 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Épargne-retraite KW - États-Unis KW - Individual retirement accounts KW - United States KW - Old age pensions KW - Pensions de vieillesse KW - Sécurité sociale KW - Social security KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security KW - bisacsh KW - Aid to the Blind KW - Angell, Homer KW - Borah, William KW - Clark amendment KW - Democratic party KW - Epstein, Abraham KW - Farmer-Labor party KW - Florida KW - Greenway, Isabella KW - Holtzman, Abraham KW - Illinois KW - Jeffery, L. W KW - Kitschelt, Herbert KW - Lasser, David KW - Lemke, Gerald KW - Maine KW - Massachusetts KW - Medicaid KW - Merriam, Frank KW - Nevada KW - Old Age Security League KW - Taft-Hartley Act (1947) KW - Tomlinson, Pierre KW - Vermont KW - Washington KW - Wisconsin KW - banking industry KW - capitalism KW - chain stores KW - deficit spending KW - disability insurance KW - eligibility KW - flat pensions KW - framing KW - fund raising KW - gross income taxes KW - health insurance KW - initiatives KW - investigation KW - lobbying KW - methodology KW - patriotism KW - political mediation theory KW - ransaction taxes KW - recalls KW - recession KW - single issue groups KW - social spending KW - socialism N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Introduction. The Townsend Plan's Image Problem --; One. Success or Consequences, and U.S. Social Movements --; Two. How the West Was Won Over --; Three. Behind the Townsend Plan's Rise and Initial Impact --; Four. The Townsend Plan versus Social Security --; Five. A National Challenger --; Six. Dr. Townsend, Now at the Helm --; Seven. The Rise of a Pension Movement --; Eight. The Townsend Plan versus Social Security, Part 2 --; Nine. The Elusive Double Victory --; Conclusion. A Hero for the Aged? --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a government-provided retirement stipend of $200 a month for every American over the age of sixty. Both the Townsend Plan, which organized two million older Americans into Townsend clubs, and the wider pension movement failed to win the generous and universal senior citizens' pensions their advocates demanded. But the movement provided the political impetus behind old-age policy in its formative years and pushed America down the track of creating an old-age welfare state. Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence, historical detail, and arresting images, Edwin Amenta traces the ups and downs of the Townsend Plan and its elderly leader Dr. Francis E. Townsend in the struggle to remake old age. In the process, Amenta advances a new theory of when social movements are influential. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that U.S. old-age policy was a result mainly of the Depression or farsighted bureaucrats. It also debunks the current view that America immediately embraced Social Security when it was adopted in 1935. And it sheds new light on how social movements that fail to achieve their primary goals can still influence social policy and the way people relate to politics UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221212?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691221212 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691221212/original ER -