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

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. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction: The Social Work of Desire....Pages 1-4 Bold, Persistent Social Work....Pages 5-11 A Method of Moral Progress....Pages 12-17 The Fifty-Four-Hour Bill and Social Work’s Alternative Professionalization....Pages 18-31 The Perkins Persona....Pages 32-37 Enter Populists. Enter Progressives. Enter Social Workers. Enter Frances Perkins....Pages 38-49 America’s Founding Economic Rights Today: Modern Government....Pages 50-68 The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire....Pages 69-97 The First Charge upon the Government....Pages 98-118 Between Social Work and Government: Investigating the Triangle Fire and Perkins’s Conference Method....Pages 119-127 Social Work through Government....Pages 128-145 Epilogue: The First Boondoggle Wasn’t a Boondoggle—The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire and the Heart of Work....Pages 146-160 Back Matter....Pages 161-162