Background
Joanne Goodwin was born on August 23, 1949, in Seattle, Washington, United States, into the family of Roy Goodwin and Vera (Bedgisoff) Locks.
After that she got Master of Arts at Sarah Lawrence College in 1983.
Finally, she earned Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1991.
Then she received Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Washington in 1973.
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The first study to explore the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first public welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families. Chicago initiated the largest mothers' pension program in the United States in 1911. Evolving alongside movements for industrial justice and women's suffrage, the mothers' pension movement hoped to provide "justice for mothers" and protection from life's insecurities. However, local politics and public finance derailed the policy, and most women were required to earn. Widows were more likely to receive pensions than deserted women and unwed mothers. And African-American mothers were routinely excluded because they were proven breadwinners yet did not compete with white men for jobs. Ultimately, the once-uniform commitment to protect motherhood faltered on the criteria of individual support, and wage-earning became a major component of the policy.
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The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labor force was greater in Las Vegas than the United States as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin’s study captures the shifting boundaries of women’s employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. It counters clichéd pictures of women at work in the famed resort city as it explores women’s real strategies for economic survival and success. Their experiences anticipated major trends in post-World War II labor history: the national migration of workers during and after the war, the growing proportion of women in the labor force, balancing work with family life, the unionization of service workers, and, above all, the desegregation of the labor force by sex and race.
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Joanne Goodwin was born on August 23, 1949, in Seattle, Washington, United States, into the family of Roy Goodwin and Vera (Bedgisoff) Locks.
Joanne attended Whitman College in the late 1960s. Then she received Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Washington in 1973. After that she got Master of Arts at Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Finally, she earned Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1991.
Since coming to Las Vegas, Goodwin has become involved in writing histories of women who have helped to build this community. To that end, she has worked with others to create the Nevada Women's Archive at UNLV; she directed the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project stored at Lied Library UNLV; and she directed the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN), a state-wide program, from 1999 - 2017.
These activities provided opportunities for graduate students to collaborate with faculty on research projects. In 2014, she collaborated with supporters of the WRIN and VegasPBS to create MAKERS: Women in Nevada History. Segments of the PBS program and the oral histories may be found. She is currently an officer of the National Collaborative of Women’s History Sites.
Historian Joanne Goodwin explores the origins of welfare for women in the "United States in Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers ’ Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929." In this work, she shows what issues have persisted into current day debate regarding welfare recipients’ morality, responsibilities, and values. Moreover, Goodwin discusses the economic considerations that have impacted welfare programs.
Joanne Goodwin’s research and teaching interests are in 20th century U.S. history with a specialization in women and gender history. Her books include: "Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990" (2014), "Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform" (1997), and the "Encyclopedia of Women in American History, 3 vols." (2002), which she co-edited. In addition, she has published widely on these topics in national and international journals.
(The first study to explore the origins of welfare in the ...)
1997(The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought a...)
Goodwin’s interest in the subject of welfare for women began while she was in college. Having grown up in financial comfort, she became concerned with economic inequity in the United States.
Quotations: “I knew that I had a lot of advantages, but I didn’t understand how there could be poverty in the midst of an era of not only personal, but national affluence.”