Miller The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work

Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52781-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 162 Seiten, eBook

The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work concerns the 'hand' the New Deal plays from the perspective of early American History in which government and business cooperation is assumed and economic rights are addressed collectively whereas political rights are considered individually. The New Deal reconfigures this 'ratio' of rights by folding 'social work' into the aims of government. Miller describes the vital part Frances Perkins and her personal history play in this development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Social Work of Desire1. Bold, Persistent Social Work2. A Method of Moral Progress3. The Fifty-Four Hour Bill and Social Work's Alternative Professionalization4. The Perkins Persona5. Enter Populists. Enter Progressives. Enter Social Workers. Enter Frances Perkins6. America's Founding Economic Rights Today: Modern Government7. The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire8. The First Charge upon the Government9. Between Social Work and Government: Investigating the Triangle Fire and Perkins's Conference Method10. Social Work through Government11. The First Boondoggle Wasn't a Boondoggle: The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire and The Heart of Work

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Paul Miller is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA. He is author of several books including The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance (1999) and several poetry books including There's Only One God and You're Not It (2011) and Being with a Bullet (2007). He is co-editor of Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (2009), and The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets (2001). Miller was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.