Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse

图书信息

作者	Peel, Mark
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226653662
出版时间	2011-11-15
字数	68.6万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

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 the sometimes fraught encounters between the poor and their interpreters. He uses dramatization to bring these encounters to life-joining Miss Cutler and that resurrected horse are Miss Lindstrom and the fried potatoes and Mr. O'Neil and the seductive client-and to give these people a voice. Adding new dimensions to the study of charity and social work, this book is essential to understanding and tackling poverty in the twenty-first century.

目录

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: MELBOURNE

Case 1: Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse

1. Service, Sympathy, and Efficiency

2. Mr. Smith and the Importance of Modern Casework

3. Wise Discrimination

4. Lady Detectives

5. There Are Those Who Feel Their Position

6. But Most Will Never Better Themselves

7. A Growing Sense of Justice

8. The Citizens’ Welfare

Part Two: LONDON

Case 2: Miss Hedges and the Stupid Client

9. The Man with the Repulsive Face

10. We Are at a Crossroads

11. They Are Somewhere Down the Stairs

12. Little People

13. Dense and Low Grade, but Still He Builds Great Castles in the Air

14. Nightmare Days

Part Three: BOSTON

Case 3: Miss Wells and the Boy Who Wanted to Be an American

15. Changing Jerzy

16. Closed Mouths and Wise Guys

17. She Has Found Herself, and He Will Make a Good American

18. The Primitive Becoming More and More Dominant

19. More Sinned Against Than Sinning

Part Four: MINNEAPOLIS

Case 4: Miss Lindstrom and the Fried Potatoes

20. The Discovery and the Remedy

21. He Is Too Willing for Us to Assume Responsibility

22. His Attitude of Helplessness Is Exasperating

23. An Insecurity of Terrifying Proportions

Part Five: OREGON

Case 5: Miss Perry and the Boy Who Knew Numbers

24. Policing Relief

25. Evasive Types and Plausible Women

26. Into the Backwoods

Part Six: MEN IN SOCIAL WORK

Case 6: Mr. O’Neill and the Seductive Client

27. In a Woman’s World

28. He Must Be Bent to Our Will and Made into a Man

29. Confronting the Nagger

30. Mr. O’Neill and Mr. Mattner

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Sources

Appendix 2: Cast of Characters

Appendix 3: Case Notes

Notes

Index