Relentless Reformer by Muncy Robyn

Author:Muncy, Robyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

PART IV

SECOND TEMPORARY REVERSAL OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE BUILDS A PRIVATE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE COALFIELDS, 1948–1963

The second temporary reversal of progressive reform was under way by 1948, when Josephine Roche denounced “Commies,” screwball liberals, and Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party. During this second reversal, progressivism was not so much subordinated by conservatism in national political life as transformed into the less ambitious, critical, and visionary Cold War liberalism. As during the first temporary reversal, however, Roche continued to experiment with new ways of diminishing inequality. She did not explicitly connect her experiments with a broader movement for social reconstruction as she had before, and she would for a few years even lose her grip on the commitment to democratic decision making that had marked her institutional leadership in the decades previous. But even still, Roche’s postwar experiment in building a private social welfare program for coal miners embodied ideals she had formed in the early years of the twentieth century. Progressivism thus lived on in bits and pieces within Cold War liberalism, and Roche’s work at the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund provided proof.

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