New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work (eBook)

Stephen Paul Miller is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA. He is author of several books including The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance (1999) and several poetry books including There's Only One God and You're Not It (2011) and Being with a Bullet (2007). He is co-editor of Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (2009), and The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets (2001). Miller was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Introduction: The Social Work of Desire1. Bold, Persistent Social Work2. A Method of Moral Progress3. The Fifty-Four Hour Bill and Social Work's Alternative Professionalization4. The Perkins Persona5. Enter Populists. Enter Progressives. Enter Social Workers. Enter Frances Perkins6. America's Founding Economic Rights Today: Modern Government7. The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire8. The First Charge upon the Government9. Between Social Work and Government: Investigating the Triangle Fire and Perkins's Conference Method10. Social Work through Government11. The First Boondoggle Wasn't a Boondoggle: The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire and The Heart of Work