TY - BOOK AU - Muncy,Robyn TI - Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America T2 - Politics and Society in Modern America SN - 9780691122731 AV - HQ1419 .M86 2017 U1 - 973.917092 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Progressivism (United States politics) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Women philanthropists KW - Colorado KW - Biography KW - Women social reformers KW - United States KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Cold War KW - Columbia University KW - Democratic Party KW - Denver KW - Edward Hale Bierstadt KW - Ella Aspinwall Roche KW - Franklin D. Roosevelt KW - Great Depression KW - John J. Roche KW - Josephine Roche KW - Medicaid KW - Medicare KW - National Recovery Administration KW - National Youth Administration KW - Nebraska KW - Neligh KW - New Deal progressives KW - New Deal KW - New York KW - Public Health Service KW - Rocky Mountain Fuel Company KW - Roosevelt administration KW - Social Security Act KW - Treasury Department KW - U.S. health care KW - U.S. welfare state KW - United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund KW - Vassar KW - Welfare Fund KW - World War I KW - World War II KW - assistant treasury secretary KW - biography KW - childhood KW - coal miners KW - college-educated women KW - conservatives KW - economic downturn KW - effectiveness KW - feminism KW - feminists KW - gender barrier KW - gender wage gap KW - global war KW - health care policy KW - health care KW - health policy KW - labor movement KW - labor policy KW - labor unions KW - labor war KW - legacy KW - liberals KW - marriage KW - mining company KW - national health insurance KW - national health plan KW - policewoman KW - political machine KW - power KW - progressive reform KW - progressive women KW - progressives KW - progressivism KW - public career KW - public health KW - social justice KW - social movements KW - social responsibility KW - social welfare system KW - unionization KW - vacation KW - women activists KW - women's rights KW - women's suffrage N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I. First Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche'S Apprenticeship, 1886-1918 --; 1. Childhood in the West, Education in the East, 1886-1908 --; 2. Aspiring Feminist and Social Science Progressive, 1908-1912 --; 3. Emergence as a Public Leader, 1912-1913 --; 4. Seeking Fundamentals: The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914 --; 5. "Part of It All One Must Become": Progressive in Wartime, 1915-1918 79 --; Part II. First Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche'S New Departures, 1919-1932 --; 6. Work and Love in a Progressive Ebb Tide, 1919-1927 --; 7. Migrating to a "Totally New Planet": Roche Takes Over Rocky Mountain Fuel, 1927-1928 --; 8. "Prophet of a New and Wiser Social Order," 1929-1932 --; Part III. Second Burst of Progressive Reform: Height of Roche'S Renown, 1933-1948 --; 9. Working with the New Deal From Colorado, 1933-1934 --; 10. At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934-1939 --; 11. Generating a National Debate about Federal Health Policy, 1935-1939 --; 12. Unmoored during Wartime, 1939-1945 --; 13. Becoming a Cold War Liberal, 1945-1948 --; Part IV. Second Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche Builds a Private Welfare System in the Coalfields, 1948-1963 --; 14. Creating "New Values, New Realities" in the Coalfields, 1948-1956 --; 15. Democratic Denials and Dissent at the Miners' Welfare Fund, 1957-1963 --; Part V. Third Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche Reclaims the Full Progressive Agenda, 1960-1976 --; 16. Challenged and Redeemed by the New Progressivism, 1960-1972 --; 17. Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Select Primary Sources --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Josephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care policy that Americans are still having today. In this gripping biography, Robyn Muncy offers Roche's persistent progressivism as evidence for surprising continuities among the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society.Muncy explains that Roche became the second-highest-ranking woman in the New Deal government after running a Colorado coal company in partnership with coal miners themselves. Once in office, Roche developed a national health plan that was stymied by World War II but enacted piecemeal during the postwar period, culminating in Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. By then, Roche directed the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund, an initiative aimed at bolstering the labor movement, advancing managed health care, and reorganizing medicine to facilitate national health insurance, one of Roche's unrealized dreams.In Relentless Reformer, Muncy uses Roche's dramatic life story-from her stint as Denver's first policewoman in 1912 to her fight against a murderous labor union official in 1972-as a unique vantage point from which to examine the challenges that women have faced in public life and to reassess the meaning and trajectory of progressive reform UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852413?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400852413 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400852413.jpg ER -