Author: Florence KelleyPublisher:
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Pamphlets Produced by the League on Wages and Working Conditions of Women, Children and the Poor
Author: Florence KelleyPublisher:
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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N.C.W.C. Bulletin
Author: National Catholic Welfare ConferencePublisher:
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Category : Catholic Action
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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For Labour and for Women
Author: Christine CollettePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719025914
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The League
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Category : Corn laws (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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National Catholic Welfare Council Bulletin
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Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Life and Labor Bulletin
Author: The Americana
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The Discovery of Poverty in the United States
Author: Robert Hamlett BremnerPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412836557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In contrast to cultures that have accepted poverty as inevitable, Americans have tended to regard it as an abnormal condition, one that may be alleviated by a combination of social reform, hard work, and spiritual discipline. In a dispassionate way, Bremner was the first to critically examine the origins and transformations of American attitudes toward poverty and reform.
Civic Passions
Author: Cecelia TichiPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States--then, as now--was riddled with political corruption, financial panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia. Drawing on a wealth of evocative personal accounts, biographies, and archival material, Tichi brings seven iconoclastic--and often overlooked--individuals from the Gilded Age back to life. We meet physician Alice Hamilton, theologian Walter Rauschenbusch, jurist Louis D. Brandeis, consumer advocate Florence Kelley, antilynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, economist John R. Commons, and child-welfare advocate Julia Lathrop. Bucking the status quo of the Gilded Age as well as middle-class complacency, these reformers tirelessly garnered popular support as they championed progressive solutions to seemingly intractable social problems. Civic Passions is a provocative and powerfully written social history, a collection of minibiographies, and a user's manual on how a generation of social reformers can turn peril into progress with fresh, workable ideas. Together, these narratives of advocacy provide a stunning precedent of progressive action and show how citizen-activists can engage the problems of the age in imaginative ways. While offering useful models to encourage the nation in a newly progressive direction, Civic Passions reminds us that one determined individual can make a difference.
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