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America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State Reprint Edition
Author(s): Ronald Schaffer (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 14 July 1994
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195049047
- ISBN-13: 9780195049046
Book Description
Ronald Schaffer shows how, in order to mobilize the nation for the First World War, the US government evolved a complex system of rewards and punishments and so created a war-welfare state in which the groups having the largest bargaining power - businessmen, conservative labour leaders, military leaders, social reformers, organized women, and pro-war intellectuals - received the largest rewards for co-operation.
