Title: Dividing citizens
First published: 1998
Description: The New Deal was not the same deal for men and women - a finding strikingly demonstrated in Dividing Citizens. The book provides a historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life.

In her examination of the impact of New Deal social and labor policies on the organization and character of U.S. citizenship, Suzanne Mettler offers an incisive analysis of the formation and implementation of the pillars of the modern welfare state: the Social Security Act, including Old Age and Survivors' Insurance, Old Age Assistance, Unemployment Insurance, and Aid to Dependent Children (later known simply as "welfare"), as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act, which guaranteed the minimum wage.
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women, Politics and government, New Deal, 1933-1939, Social policy, History, Federal government, Sex role in the work environment, Sex discrimination in employment
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 1933-1945
LC classification: HQ1426 .M48 1998