Disenfranchised Mothers and Maternity Insurance – Tracing Progressive Arguments in Ernest Hemingway’s Short Stories by Alina Schumacher

Subjects: “…Progressive Era…”
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Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era by Marlon Lieber

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Jeanne D. Petit,The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate. by Chrysavgi Papayianni

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"The Best Way to Explain It Is to Do It": Ida Cannon and the Professionalization of Medical Social Work During the Progressive Era and the 1920s by Anette Bickmeyer

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The “Background Conditions” of the Hedge Fund in General Electric’s Schenectady: Reconsidering the “History of Capitalism” by David Huyssen

“…This article applies Nancy Fraser’s theory of capitalism’s “background conditions” to a grassroots case study: the formative influences of Progressive-Era Schenectady’s social relations on the socialist who created the hedge fund, Alfred Winslow Jones. …”
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Direct Democracy on Election Day: Ballot Measures as Measures of American Democracy by Donna Kesselman

“…Ballot Measures (or Propositions) are a form of Progressive Era direct democracy which has regained momentum in recent years. …”
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African American Womanhood: A Study of Women’s Life Writings (1861-1910s) by Élise Vallier

“…Covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and up to the beginning of World War I, this work examines the way these women expressed their self-identities.…”
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The Boston Women’s Educational and Industrial Union: When Business Undergirded Claims to Political Participation (1877-1920) by Jeanne Boiteux

“…This article is a case study of a Progressive Era women’s voluntary association, the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. …”
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A Gilded Awakening: Othering the New Woman Narrative in Anzia Yezierska’s Short Fiction by María Abizanda-Cardona

“… The Progressive Era’s New Woman, epitomized in Edna Pontellier’s awakening, has been hailed as an icon of feminist rebellion. …”
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