Miss Cutler & the case of the resurrected horse :: social work and the story of poverty in America, Australia, and Britain /

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse is a pioneering comparative study th...

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1. Verfasser: Peel, Mark, 1959-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:Historical studies of urban America.
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Zusammenfassung:Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse is a pioneering comparative study that examines how these stories of poverty were narrated and reshaped by ethnic diversity, economic crisis, and war. Probing the similarities and differences in the ways Americans, Australians, and Britons understood and responded to poverty, Mark Peel draws a picture of social work that is based in th.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 325 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226653662
0226653668
128331133X
9781283311335
9786613311337
6613311332

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