Unsentimental Reformer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unsentimental Reformer write by Joan Waugh. This book was released on 1997. Unsentimental Reformer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Brahmin, member of an illustrious family, sister of the martyred Robert Gould Shaw, who led his proud black troops against Fort Wagner, and, later, a war widow, Lowell constantly responded to changing ideological and economic conditions affecting the poor.
Immigration, Incorporation and Transnationalism
Immigration, Incorporation and Transnationalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immigration, Incorporation and Transnationalism write by Elliott Robert Barkan. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Immigration, Incorporation and Transnationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Immigration, Incorporation and Transition is an intriguing collection of articles and essays. It was developed to commemorate the twenty-fi fth anniversary of The Journal of American Ethnic History. Its purpose, like that of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, is to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives and exciting new scholarship on important themes and issues related to immigration and ethnic history.
The Restless City
The Restless City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Restless City write by Joanne Reitano. This book was released on 2010-07-01. The Restless City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a short, lively history of the world’s most exciting and diverse metropolis. It shows how New York’s perpetual struggles for power, wealth, and status exemplify the vigor, creativity, resilience, and influence of the nation’s premier urban center. The updated second edition includes nineteen images and brings the story right up through the mayoral election of 2009. In these pages are the stories of a broad cross-section of people and events that shaped the city, including mayors and moguls, women and workers, and policemen and poets. Joanne Reitano shows how New York has invigorated the American dream by confronting the fundamental economic, political, and social challenges that face every city. Energized by change, enriched by immigrants, and enlivened by provocative leaders, New York City’s restlessness has always been its greatest asset.
Beyond Benevolence
Beyond Benevolence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Benevolence write by Dawn M. Greeley. This book was released on 2022-01-04. Beyond Benevolence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive history of one of the largest charitable organizations in early modern America. Drawing on extensive archival records, Beyond Benevolence tells the fascinating story of the New York Charity Organization Society. The period between 1880 and 1935 marked a seminal, heavily debated change in American social welfare and philanthropy. The New York Charity Organization Society was at the center of these changes and played a key role in helping to reshape the philanthropic landscape. Greeley uncovers rarely seen letters written to wealthy donors by working-class people, along with letters from donors and case entries. These letters reveal the myriad complex relationships, power struggles, and shifting alliances that developed among donors, clients, and charity workers over decades as they negotiated the meaning of charity, the basis of entitlement, and the extent of the obligation between classes in New York. Meticulously researched and uniquely focused on the day-to-day practice of scientific charity as much as its theory, Beyond Benevolence offers a powerful glimpse into how the trajectory of one charitable organization reflected a nation's momentous social, economic, and political upheavals as it moved into the 20th century.
No Right to Be Idle
No Right to Be Idle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Right to Be Idle write by Sarah F. Rose. This book was released on 2017-02-13. No Right to Be Idle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans had long viewed productivity as a spectrum that varied by age, gender, and ability. But as Sarah F. Rose explains in No Right to Be Idle, a perfect storm of public policies, shifting family structures, and economic changes effectively barred workers with disabilities from mainstream workplaces and simultaneously cast disabled people as morally questionable dependents in need of permanent rehabilitation to achieve "self-care" and "self-support." By tracing the experiences of policymakers, employers, reformers, and disabled people caught up in this epochal transition, Rose masterfully integrates disability history and labor history. She shows how people with disabilities lost access to paid work and the status of "worker--a shift that relegated them and their families to poverty and second-class economic and social citizenship. This has vast consequences for debates about disability, work, poverty, and welfare in the century to come.
