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
162The 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
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ISBN-13: | 9781137527806 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
Publication date: | 12/03/2015 |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2015 |
Pages: | 162 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Social Work of Desire 1. Bold, Persistent Social Work 2. A Method of Moral Progress 3. The Fifty-Four Hour Bill and Social Work's Alternative Professionalization 4. The Perkins Persona 5. Enter Populists. Enter Progressives. Enter Social Workers. Enter Frances Perkins 6. America's Founding Economic Rights Today: Modern Government 7. The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire 8. The First Charge upon the Government 9. Between Social Work and Government: Investigating the Triangle Fire and Perkins's Conference Method 10. Social Work through Government 11. The First Boondoggle Wasn't a Boondoggle: The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire and The Heart of WorkWhat People are Saying About This
"Stephen Paul Miller has written a brilliant and multifaceted cultural history meditation on the origins of the ideal of economic equality in America. Ranging as freely among the philosophies of America's founding fathers as among the policy initiatives of the New Dealers, Miller gives primacy in modern times to the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the nation's first female cabinet member. Perkins, using her interpersonal skills as a former social worker, pioneered the use of collaborative meetings to solve social and policy conflicts. In Miller's interpretation, her skills and insights furthered not just New Deal corporatism, but above all that era's unprecedented federal commitments to protecting individual rather than group economic rights. This is an important book for our times." - Jeffrey Kinkley, Professor of History, St. John's University, USA
"Miller's work insightfully ties concepts of economic and political rights at the time of the American founding to those espoused during the New Deal era of the 1930s. He provides original and detailed analysis of the transition of Frances Perkins from social reformer to political activist. His book should be of interest to readers in history, political theory, cultural studies, and sociology." - Robert Speel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, USA
"Stephen Paul Miller has written a groundbreaking analysis of economic equality throughout American history. This book significantly advances upon previous treatments of New Deal economic rights by showing how the New Deal wed human and economic rights, showing how FDR and Perkins consider economic rights as more than the right to mere economic subsistence but rather as the right to full economic and human development. At a moment where the 99 percent is still being held to account for itself, Miller's brilliant book reminds us of how FDR and Perkins addressed an issue that is still very much unresolved." - David Yaffe, Syracuse University, USA