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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: the Army takes care of its own
• Army benefits in a free market era
• Is military service a job?
• The threat of a social welfare institution
• Supporting the military in Reagan's America
• Army wives demand support
• Securing Christian family values
• A turn to self-reliance
• Outsourcing solider and family support
• Epilogue: Army welfare at war in the twenty-first century.

Author/Creator:

Mittelstadt, Jennifer, 1970- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The rise of the military welfare state [by Mittelstadt, J.]

Subjects:

Military social work — United States

Soldiers — United States — Social conditions — 20th century

Families of military personnel — United States — Social conditions — 20th century

Families of military personnel — Services for — United States — History — 20th century

Military spouses — United States — History — 20th century

United States Army — Social services — Contracting out

United States Army — Military life — History — 20th century

Sociology, Military — United States

Welfare state — United States — History — 20th century

United States Army

1900-1999

Soldiers

Families of military personnel

Social conditions

Families of military personnel — Services for

Military spouses

Military social work

Contracting out

Armed Forces — Military life

Sociology, Military

Welfare state

Soldiers — Social conditions

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

UH755 .M58 2015

ISBNs:

9780674286139 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
0674286138 (hardcover, alkaline paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015005609

OCLC Numbers:

904400089