‘Homeless’ women and the problem of visibility: Australia 1900–1940
Punishments, Bodies and Environments in Historical Focus
Rise and Decline of the Welfare State in America
Centre for Research on Globalization | NY Times
Clinton converted welfare into cheap labor ‘workfare’, exploiting the poorest and most vulnerable and condemning the next generations to grinding poverty. Under Clinton the prison population of mostly African Americans expanded and the breakup of families ravaged the urban communities.
‘Happiness again’: photographing and narrating the arrival of Hungarian child refugees and their families 1956–1957
Social work: An otline of its professional aspects [American Association of Social Workers (1922)]
Why Freud Matters: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and the Skeptical Humanist Tradition
Skeptic | LoC
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography
Children in Progressive-Era America: Work Life: Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker. S. Pittston, PA (1912-13)
Kathleen Jones’ Asylums and After. A Revised History of the Mental Health Services: From the Early 18th Century to the 1990s (1993) – reflection
Healing a Sick World: Psychiatric Medicine and the Atomic Age
A History of Social Work in Public Health
Fifty Years’ Work with Girls, 1883-1933: A Story of the Florence Crittenton Homes
Trends in the proportion of married women of reproductive age in Spain, 1887–1991
The Female Student on Trial, 1910–1915: Dorothy M. Gladish versus University College Nottingham versus Oscar Wilde
Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
Sexuality under scrutiny in 1930s Soho
Childbirth History as Everyone’s History
The road to anomie: the rise and decline of public service unions in France
Labor, Agency, and State-building in Trinidad and Tobago: Toward a Postcolonial Sociological Approach to Development
Jane Addams Digital Edition
‘Imperfect Children’ in Historical Perspective
In between mental evolution and unconscious memory: Lamarckism, Darwinism, and professionalism in late Victorian Britain
Maternal Responsibility and Traceable Loss: medicine and miscarriage in twentieth-century Australia
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, socialist, anti-imperialist … and social worker?
Women in Defense of Workers: Ella Winter, the literary left, and labor journalism in California
‘Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot’: These Are the Precursors to ‘A Day Without a Woman’
Time | E Gordon/New York Historical Society/Getty
1900s Romanian immigrant lifted the lid on St. Paul’s wretched poverty
Star Tribune | Wilder Foundation
Romanian-born social reformer Carol Aronovici pioneered the first study of living conditions in 1917 St. Paul for what became the Wilder Foundation.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, socialist, anti-imperialist … and social worker?
Depression Blues
University Settlement of New York City
Sexual Connections: Queers and Competing Tourist Markets in Miami and the Caribbean, 1920-1940
‘National Insurance against sickness and unemployment: Full explanation of Mr Lloyd George’s great scheme’, c1911
Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945
Lessons from Australia: Persia Campbell and the International Afterlives of Federation-Era Welfarism
History of Social Work in Northern Ireland: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
‘Organizing’ Meiji Women: the role of the Japanese chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union for individual activists, 1900–1905
From the ‘cape of despair’ to the Cape of Good Hope: letters of the emigrant poor in early nineteenth-century England
Alexander and Anastayzia: the separation and search for family among Europe’s displaced
Histories of constrained compassion: the idealised refugee family and the Australian nation, 1947–1975
Documents That Changed the Way We Live: The “We Can Do It!” Poster
CHOICE360 | NMAH/Smithsonian Institution
From the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 to the Serious Crime Act 2015 – the development of the law relating to female genital mutilation in England and Wales
Race, femininity, and benign nature in a vintage tobacco ad
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Postmarital residence and child sex selection: Evidence from northeastern Japan, 1716–1870
Carl Rogers’ and B. F. Skinner’s approaches to personal and societal improvement: A study in the psychological humanities.
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Feminism, the state, and the centrality of reproduction: abortion struggles in 1970s Italy
Focusing on Italy but referring to developments in other industrialized countries, the article inscribes the history of the battle for reproductive rights in 1970s Italy within a framework centred on the Foucauldian notion of biopolitical power.
Documents that Changed the Way We Live: The AIDS Quilt
CHOICE360 | NIH:NLM
The AIDS Memorial Quilt on display on the National Mall in front of the United States
The genesis of victimization surveys and of the realist-constructionist divide
‘Details on the Establishment of Doctor Willis, for the Cure of Lunatics’ (1796)
Neither worker nor housewife but citizen: BBC’s Woman’s Hour 1946–1955
Great American Smokeout today [ poster from the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library of Yale University ]
