Social Security avoided controversy because it evaded racial and gender politics

Evidence

Social Security was (and still is) one of the New Deal’s less contentious social insurance programs precisely because it remains relatively untouched by the normative issues of race, gender, and family formation that intersect in programs such as AFDC. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 234

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the familiar ‘two tracks of the welfare state’ thesis from Linda Gordon and Ira Katznelson distinguishing race-neutral social insurance from race-laden public assistance. — connects to: Social security’s architecture was built on private risk-management and gendered-entitlement assumptions — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 692; Social Security removed only standard male workers from family-responsibility poor laws — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 220

Broader Connections

• Social security’s architecture was built on private risk-management and gendered-entitlement assumptions #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 692
• Social Security removed only standard male workers from family-responsibility poor laws #qualifies (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 220