Focusing on the days and months following the Halifax explosion of 1917, this study takes a look at the role of social workers in the wake of the disaster, as well as the class relations of the time. Exhaustively researched, this history clearly identifies the direct correlation between many of today’s inherited social-work practices and attitudes with the social climate of that early relief effort. Marking the transition from charity work—where traditionally well-off volunteers passed judgment on their poorer neighbors—to professional social care, this analysis reflects on the lessons learned when newly arrived workers had to navigate the prevailing class structures while attempting to rebuild the lives of the Haligonians.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 361.309716225
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-ns
- ISBN
- 9781552663684 9781552662274
- LCCN
- HV40.8.C3
- LCCN Item number
- H43 2006eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 134 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224220 (OCoLC)609988821 (CaOOCEL)432741
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL