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

Author
Peel, Mark, 1959-
Additional Titles
Miss Cutler and the case of the resurrected horse
Published
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 325 pages).
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Language Note
English.
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.
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 th.
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ISBN
9780226653662 (electronic bk.)
0226653668 (electronic bk.)
128331133X
9781283311335
9780226653631
0226653633
9786613311337
6613311332
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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