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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.
Stephen Paul Miller
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Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; JKSN; JPHL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137527806
SKU
V9781137527806
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About Stephen Paul Miller
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 ... Read more
Reviews for 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.
"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, ... Read more