The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
by
Nikki Mandell
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry. By the mid-1920s, 80 percent of the nation's largest companies--firms including DuPont, International Harvester, and Metropolitan Life Insurance--engaged in some form of welfare...