This book shows how paternalism in Southern agriculture helped shape the growth of the welfare state.

Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and

During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in

These essays look at southern social customs within a single city in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the volume focuses on paternal

In a period of rapid change for welfare states around the world, this insightful book offers a comparative study of three historically small welfare states: the