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The Carter Family
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A Dream Deferred
From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associated with reducing suffering, enhancing social order, and social reform. Since then, social programs like the implementation of welfare and the expansion of the service economy-which should have augured well for American social work-instead led to a continued loss of credibility with the public and within the academy.A Dream Deferred chronicles this decline of social work, attributing it to the poor quality of professional education during the past half-century. The incongruity between social work's promise and its performance warrants a critical rev...
Ye Mauldins
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Poverty and Policy in American History
Poverty and Policy in American History is about people who needed help in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is about the ways in which the perception of poverty and other forms of dependence affected the development of public programs and the conduct of voluntary reform. It also about the ways in which people have written about welfare. The book contains three chapters and opens with a description of the life and death of a poor family in early twentieth-century Philadelphia based on case records. It attempts to show many of the themes in the lives of the poor through the close analysis of one extended example. The second chapter moves back in time and consists of four case st...
Fair Play
Conversations with twelve Canadian woman playwrights give a lively insight into their craft.
Huffaker Kith and Kin
Johann Michael Hoffacker emigrated from Switzerland (via Rotterdam) to Philadelphia in 1732, and settled in Lancaster (later York) County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, California and elsewhere.
