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Miss Cutler and the case of the resurrected horse : social work and the story of poverty in America, Australia, and Britain / Mark Peel.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peel, Mark, 1959-
- Series:
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Historical studies of urban America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Services for--United States.
- Poor.
- Poor--Services for--England.
- Poor--Services for--Australia.
- Social case work--United States.
- Social case work.
- Social case work--England.
- Social case work--Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 the sometimes fraught encounters between the poor and their interpreters. He uses dramatization to bring these encounters to life-joining Miss Cutler and that resurrected horse are Miss Lindstrom and the fried potatoes and Mr. O'Neil and the seductive client-and to give these people a voice. Adding new dimensions to the study of charity and social work, this book is essential to understanding and tackling poverty in the twenty-first century.
- Contents:
- Melbourne. Case 1: Miss Cutler and the case of the resurrected horse
- Service, sympathy, and efficiency
- Mr. Smith and the importance of modern casework
- Wise discrimination
- Lady detectives
- There are those who feel their position
- But most will never better themselves
- A growing sense of justice
- The citizens' welfare
- London. Case 2: Miss Hedges and the stupid client
- The man with the repulsive face
- We are at a crossroads
- They are somewhere down the stairs
- Little people
- Dense and low grade, but still he builds great castles in the air
- Nightmare days
- Boston. Case 3: Miss Wells and the boy who wanted to be an American
- Changing jerzy
- Closed mouths and wise guys
- She has found herself, and he will make a good American
- The primitive becoming more and more dominant
- More sinned against than sinning
- Minneapolis. Case 4: Miss Lindstrom and the fried potatoes
- The discovery and the remedy
- He is too willing for us to assume responsibility
- His attitude of helplessness is exasperating
- An insecurity of terrifying proportions
- Oregon. Case 5: Miss Perry and the boy who knew numbers
- Policing relief
- Evasive types and plausible women
- Into the backwoods
- Men in social work. Case 6: Mr. O'Neill and the seductive client
- In a woman's world
- He must be bent to our will and made into a man
- Confronting the nagger
- Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Mattner.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613311337
- 9781283311335
- 128331133X
- 9780226653662
- 0226653668
- OCLC:
- 761213263
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