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Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again. Above: An American man being released from debtors’ prison.
Fiona with her boyfriend, Raymond, in the 1980s. They were both heroin users. Raymond later died of Aids
Clearly, the American system hadn’t improved much on Europe’s old “familial” treatments. Dorothea Dix, a tireless advocate, called upon the Massachusetts legislature to take on the “sacred cause” of caring for the mentally unwell during a time when women were unwelcome in politics. Her efforts helped found 32 new therapeutic asylums on the philosophy of moral treatment.
When the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940, Pritchard, then Marion van Binsbergen, was a 19-year-old social work student. She opposed the regime from the onset, but it was this chance encounter, during which she witnessed the the violent round-up of children who ranged in age from 2 to 8, that moved her to action.
A map of Georgia, by Du Bois, colorfully indicates the number of acres owned by African-Americans in each county.
The Palmer Raids sought not just to round up “subversives” but to expel them.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early years of Europe’s oldest psychiatric hospital, which opened as St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate and soon became known as Bedlam.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Jung who wrote about the concepts of ‘introverted’ and ‘extroverted’, and the significance of the collective history of Mankind.
Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as “deserving” or “undeserving” of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996.
British Trades Union Congress(TUC)
The group held a four-day meeting at the Jones Hotel in Philadelphia during which they created the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane. It was renamed the American Psychiatric Association in 1921.
In this collection of essays, Steve Fraser, the preeminent historian of American capitalism, sets the record straight, rewriting the arc of the American saga with class conflict center stage and mounting a serious challenge to the consoling fantasy of American exceptionalism.
Published by the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Dorothea Buck in 1956. Twenty years earlier, Nazi authorities declared her schizophrenic and sterilized her. Years later she transformed herself from a full-time sculptor into a crusader on behalf of the mentally ill.
Business schools fetishize entrepreneurial innovation, but their most prominent heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance.
