Fun Facts to Know and Tell: Mutual Aid Societies Edition
Posted in Voluntary Society, Welfare State on Jan 15th, 2011
David Beito in his excellent book, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, tells us that it is very difficult to estimate just how many people were affiliated with franternal and mutual aid societies back in their heyday – especially since large segments of the black and immigrant population would have been undercounted. Nonetheless, by […]
