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Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System. By Matthew A. Crenson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 383 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-46591-1.)

Over the past ten years, an outpouring of scholarship on gender and the welfare state has focused attention on the creation of mothers' pensions in the 1910s. The political scientist Matthew A. Crenson looks at mothers' pensions from a different vantage point: as the result of the evolution and ultimate rejection of the orphanage. Looking backward to the orphanage rather than forward to the New Deal, he contributes to our understanding of the development of welfare policy. . . .

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