Background
McQuaid was born on November 2, 1947 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States; the son of Francis Walter McQuaid and Margaret Fitzgerald Phelan.
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The business community has been the Number One Enemy of welfare programmes according to most historians. History credits liberals and bureaucrats with bravely forging our social welfare system in the face of pressure and strident protest from businessmen. Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid disagree. They argue that instead of resisting social programmes, businesssmen initiated them. In "Creating the Welfare State", Berkowitz and McQuaid aim to show how private businessmen played leading roles in shaping the nation's social security, welfare, and health care programmes. They demonstrate how progressive businessmen like Edward A. Filene and Gerard Swope worked with their opposite numbers in the federal government, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Arthur Altmeyer, to fashion a social welfare system tailored to an industrialized work force. "Creating the Welfare State" combines the perspectives of two disciplines: policy history and business history. The resulting synthesis suggests a new way to view the progressive era, the new era, and the New Deal. The new preface and afterword add a current focus to this revised edition and help a new generation of readers place the debates over national health insurance and social security financing into historical perspective.
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This is a reprint of a previously published doctoral dissertation. It describes and analyzes the reformist experimentations undertaken by Capitalists from 1886 to 1960.
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In this powerful and provocative book, the author reveals the unsentimental and vivid history related to the links of Vietnam, the New Left, and Watergate; the landmarks of a single military, social and political disaster.
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"Businessmen are politicians in America," writes Kim McQuaid, "and politicians are businessmen." Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, high technology, and Smart Bombs, the private and public sectors are working together to perform tasks that each is unable to do alone. In Uneasy Partners McQuaid surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present. Government needs business, McQuaid explains, to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain advantages over labor and markets. The defining characteristics of this business-government relationship form the focal point for each of the book's chapters. McQuaid first examines the 1945-60 transition period, discussing Eisenhower's domestic policies, foreign aid, and the oil market. He explores the rapid expansion of government under the Democratic administrations of the 1960s. He discusses the Republican retrenchment and the Reagan administration's pro-business agenda in the 1980s. Finally he assesses the legacy of the Reagan policies and evaluates the current U.S. position in the world economy.
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McQuaid was born on November 2, 1947 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States; the son of Francis Walter McQuaid and Margaret Fitzgerald Phelan.
McQuaid received a Bachelor of Arts from Antioch College in 1970. Three years later he earned his Master of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from Northwestern University.
McQuaid began his career as an assistant professor of the history department at Lake Erie College in 1977. Six years later he took a position of an associate professor at the same college. Since 1989 he has been a professor at Lake Erie College.
In addition, he was a visiting professor at the UCD (University College of Dublin) School of History in 1985-1986. In 1995, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Science Malaysia and held it for a year.
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(The business community has been the Number One Enemy of w...)
( "Businessmen are politicians in America," writes Kim Mc...)
(This is a reprint of a previously published doctoral diss...)
