Class, race, and gender and theorizing welfare states

Misra, Joya

doi:10.1016/s0895-9935(02)80006-7

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“…Although class power theories usefully bring nonstate actors and interests into the picture, their analyses are developed at such a high level of abstraction that the middle-range institutional mechanisms of the sort that political institutionalists consider disappear. Class power approaches ultimately point to balance of class forces arguments—when labor is strong it wins social policy gains, when business is strong it rolls them back (Misra, 2002). While this has merit, it fails to theorize the specific ways labor and business influence social policy given the variation in the institutional constraints that they face and, as a result, fails to provide an adequate account of pension development in the postwar period.…”

Section: Approaches To Pension Development In the United Statesmentioning

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Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism

McCarthy

2013

Work and Occupations

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Debates over America's heavy reliance on employer-provided private pensions have understated the profound role organized labor played after World War II. Archival evidence from prominent unions and business associations suggests that the shift in organized labor's strategy after the New Deal toward electoral activity helps explain critical interventions by Northern Democrats into the system of private pensioning in the postwar period that laid the foundation for America's old-age security system. Such a strategy was insufficient, however, to expand Social Security. This article offers a political mediation account of electoral activity as a source of labor influence on social policy that draws on political institutionalist and class power theories.

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Section: Approaches To Pension Development In the United Statesmentioning

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Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism

McCarthy

2013

Work and Occupations

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“…In this study, we propose that the feminization of poverty is a useful alternative perspective on cross-national variation in the intersection of gender and class (Misra 2002). In recent years, much has been learned about the feminization of poverty: women are more likely to be poor than men, U.S. feminization of poverty fluctuates over time (Bianchi 1999;McLanahan and Kelly 1999) and across racial/ethnic groups (Elmelech and Lu 2004), and the feminization of poverty varies cross-nationally (Casper et al 1994).…”

Section: Nearly Universal But Somewhat Distinct: the Feminization Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other scholars are less confident that economic egalitarianism will ensure gender equality and point to resilient gender inequalities in societies that are relatively economically equal (Misra 2002;Sainsbury 1999). As McCall (2001 contends, gender inequality is not simply reducible to overall economic inequality.…”

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“…Despite powerful effects on overall poverty, the welfare state literature suggests that women may benefit less from welfare generosity (Christopher 2002a;Meyer 1990Meyer , 1994Misra 2002;Orloff 1996;Sainsbury 1999). Feminists show that the welfare state fails to ensure that single mothers can form economically secure autonomous households Kilkey and Bradshaw 1999).…”

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Nearly universal, but somewhat distinct: The feminization of poverty in affluent Western democracies, 1969–2000

Brady¹,

Kall²

2008

Social Science Research

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may ABSTRACTOur study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the ratio of women's to men's poverty with two different poverty measures. We suggest that by incorporating the elderly, the feminization of poverty may be greater than previously estimated. The feminization of poverty is nearly universal across affluent Western democracies 1969-2000. Second, we show that women's, men's and overall poverty are highly correlated, but the feminization of poverty diverges as a distinct social problem. Third, we find that women's, men's and overall poverty share several correlates, particularly the welfare state, though some differences exist. At the same time, several of our findings differ with past research. The feminization of poverty is only influenced by social security transfers, single motherhood, and the sex ratios of the elderly and labor force participation. While power resources theory probably best explains women's, men's and overall poverty, structural theory may best explain the feminization of poverty. We conclude by discussing how analyses of the feminization of poverty contribute to debates on poverty and gender inequality.

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The Politics of Economic Inequality

Brady

Sosnaud

2010

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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Class, race, and gender and theorizing welfare states

Cited by 7 publications

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Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism

Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism

Nearly universal, but somewhat distinct: The feminization of poverty in affluent Western democracies, 1969–2000

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