- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Part I First Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche’s Apprenticeship, 1886–1918 -
Chapter 1 Childhood in the West, Education in the East, 1886–1908 -
Chapter 2 Aspiring Feminist and Social Science Progressive, 1908–1912 -
Chapter 3 Emergence as a Public Leader, 1912–1913 -
Chapter 4 Seeking Fundamentals: The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913–1914 -
Chapter 5 “Part of It All One Must Become”: Progressive in Wartime, 1915–1918 -
Part II First Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche’s New Departures, 1919–1932 -
Chapter 6 Work and Love in a Progressive Ebb Tide, 1919–1927 -
Chapter 7 Migrating to a “Totally New Planet”: Roche Takes Over Rocky Mountain Fuel, 1927–1928 -
Chapter 8 “Prophet of a New and Wiser Social Order,” 1929–1932 -
Part III Second Burst of Progressive Reform: Height of Roche’s Renown, 1933–1948 -
Chapter 9 Working with the New Deal from Colorado, 1933–1934 -
Chapter 10 At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934–1939 -
Chapter 11 Generating a National Debate about Federal Health Policy, 1935–1939 -
Chapter 12 Unmoored during Wartime, 1939–1945 -
Chapter 13 Becoming a Cold War Liberal, 1945–1948 -
Part IV Second Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche Builds a Private Welfare System in the Coalfields, 1948–1963 -
Chapter 14 Creating “New Values, New Realities” in the Coalfields, 1948–1956 -
Chapter 15 Democratic Denials and Dissent at the Miners’ Welfare Fund, 1957–1963 -
Part V Third Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche Reclaims the Full Progressive Agenda, 1960–1976 -
Chapter 16 Challenged and Redeemed by the New Progressivism, 1960–1972 -
Chapter 17 Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment - Abbreviations
- Select Primary Sources
- Index
Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment
Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment
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- (p.289) Chapter 17 Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment
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- Relentless Reformer
- Author(s):
Robyn Muncy
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- Princeton University Press
This chapter considers the legacy of Josephine Roche. Roche did not live to see the new, deindustrialized age in American history. Early in 1976, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It had metastasized and she died on July 29, 1976, at age 89. Even though obituaries of Roche rehearsed many of the highlights of her amazing career, she had by then faded from Americans' collective memory. She had lived so long that few remembered the headlines trumpeting her breakthroughs as a policewoman in the 1910s, as a progressive industrialist in the 1920s, or as assistant secretary of the treasury in the 1930s. Her obscurity resulted in part from Roche's own desire to hide from public view during the anti-communist frenzy of the late 1940s and early 1950s. When she reemerged, she was an old woman eventually represented in print as little more than a rubberstamp to John L. Lewis. The remainder of the chapter considers representation because it helps us understand further how such an important and previously well-known woman could disappear from American history.
Keywords: Josephine Roche, progressives, progressivism, biography, legacy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I First Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche’s Apprenticeship, 1886–1918 -
Chapter 1 Childhood in the West, Education in the East, 1886–1908 -
Chapter 2 Aspiring Feminist and Social Science Progressive, 1908–1912 -
Chapter 3 Emergence as a Public Leader, 1912–1913 -
Chapter 4 Seeking Fundamentals: The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913–1914 -
Chapter 5 “Part of It All One Must Become”: Progressive in Wartime, 1915–1918 -
Part II First Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche’s New Departures, 1919–1932 -
Chapter 6 Work and Love in a Progressive Ebb Tide, 1919–1927 -
Chapter 7 Migrating to a “Totally New Planet”: Roche Takes Over Rocky Mountain Fuel, 1927–1928 -
Chapter 8 “Prophet of a New and Wiser Social Order,” 1929–1932 -
Part III Second Burst of Progressive Reform: Height of Roche’s Renown, 1933–1948 -
Chapter 9 Working with the New Deal from Colorado, 1933–1934 -
Chapter 10 At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934–1939 -
Chapter 11 Generating a National Debate about Federal Health Policy, 1935–1939 -
Chapter 12 Unmoored during Wartime, 1939–1945 -
Chapter 13 Becoming a Cold War Liberal, 1945–1948 -
Part IV Second Temporary Reversal of Progressive Reform: Roche Builds a Private Welfare System in the Coalfields, 1948–1963 -
Chapter 14 Creating “New Values, New Realities” in the Coalfields, 1948–1956 -
Chapter 15 Democratic Denials and Dissent at the Miners’ Welfare Fund, 1957–1963 -
Part V Third Burst of Progressive Reform: Roche Reclaims the Full Progressive Agenda, 1960–1976 -
Chapter 16 Challenged and Redeemed by the New Progressivism, 1960–1972 -
Chapter 17 Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment - Abbreviations
- Select Primary Sources
- Index
