Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism

Debates over America’s heavy reliance on employer-provided private pensions have understated the profound role organized labor played after World War II. Archival evidence from prominent unions and business associations suggests that the shift in organized labor’s strategy after the New Deal toward electoral activity helps explain critical interventions by Northern Democrats into the system of private pensioning in the postwar period that laid the foundation for America’s old-age security system. Such a strategy was insufficient, however, to expand Social Security. This article offers a political mediation account of electoral activity as a source of labor influence on social policy that draws on political institutionalist and class power theories

Ohio History 2010

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/10132/OH-v117-thumb.jpgOHIO HISTORY Contents for Volume 117, 2010 Editor’s Note ...... 4 &nbsp; The Ethnicity of Ohio’s Strength Culture John D. Fair&nbsp;...... 5 Kate Chase, the “Sphere of Women’s Work,” and Her Influence upon Her Father’s Dissent in Bradwell v. Illinois Richard L. Aynes ...... 31 Health Issues and Medical Care in the Ohio Penitentiary, 1833–1907 Nancy E. Tatarek, Amy L. Harris, and Dorothy E. Dean ...... 50 Youngstown’s Idora Park: Creating a Fantasyland in an Industrial Landscape Donna M. DeBlasio ...... 74 The Racial Desegregation of Dayton, Ohio, Public Schools, 1966–2008 Joseph Watras ...... 93 “Dont DONT D-O-N-T” to “I Do”: Antoinette Brown Blackwell’s Relationship with Marriage Courtney Lyons ...... 108 &nbsp; Book Reviews ...... 129 </ul