Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965.
Independent Review › Vol. 4 Nbr. 3, January 2000
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Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965.
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965
By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 170. $49.95. The decline of a private system of social welfare on southern cotton plantations, Lee Alston and Joseph Ferrie maintain in this sprightly institutionalist history, was the prerequisite for the rise of the national welfare state in the United States. Three conditions, they argue, supported southern paternalism. First, white and especially black tenant farmers and sha...See the full content of this document
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