Description
Book Synopsis
Social Security: Visions and Revisions, first published in 1986, encourages lawmakers, academic experts, and general readers alike to think more broadly and boldly about social security and its relation to public assistance and other income-maintenance and health-care programs.
Trade Review
'Achenbaum's book is easily the best survey of the history of social security policy that we have. Achenbaum is one of the historians of twentieth-century policy making who have something stimulating and constructive to add to discussions of contemporary policy issues. During the next ten years it will almost certainly become one of the most influential and widely read books on social security.' W. Elliot Brownlee, University of California, Santa Barbara
' … Sober, thoughtful study …' The New York Times Book Review
Table of Contents
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Social Security Comes of Age: 1. Social security: the early years; 2. Social security matures, 1940–72; 3. The mid-life crisis of American social security; 4. Social security gets a new lease on life; Part II. Current Social Security Issues in Historical perspective: 5. Retirement under social security; 6. Social security and the modern American woman; 7. Universal coverage: an either/or proposition?; 8. Federal health care programs and social security; 9. A vision renewed: individual needs and mutual responsibility; Notes; Index.
