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Little mother (circa 1905)

Columbia University Libraries | New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

63rd The AICP Annual report, 1905-1906, section on Fresh Air Work, p. 54. “Next to the overburdened women and the sick babies, the ‘little mothers’ appeal most strongly – those young girls upon whom the entire care and responsibility of a family devolve. Not every one of the is as fortunate as the child of fifteen who earnestly said when she was complimented on the neat appearance of the home: “Oh, but it’s only right for me to keep things clean and nice, for since mama died, three years ago, papa has been awful good. He stays home nights and spends all he makes on us children and the house.

“A public problem … rather than a question of social welfare:” Ernest F. Hollings and the politics of hunger

Sporting Women and Machonas: negotiating gender through sports in Argentina, 1900–1946

A Dark Page in American History: Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Blacklist

In an earlier era, Vermonters abused opiates

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An advertisement for Greene’s Syrup of Tar, which had heroin as an ingredient, was manufactured by a company in Montpelier.

Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600–1850

‘Work for others but none for us’: the economic and environmental inequalities of New Deal relief

Primary sources on the history of the Soviet family in the twentieth century: an analytical review

Liberating minds: Consciousness-raising as a bridge between feminism and psychology in 1970s Canada.

Industrial requiem: management, labor, and investment at the Lowell Machine Shop

New challenges, new alliances: union politicization in a post-NAFTA era

Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs

Fascination–Revulsion

Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach

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The Spectre of the ‘Man-Woman Athlete’: Mark Weston, Zdenek Koubek, the 1936 Olympics and the uncertainty of sex

Working in the Big Easy: the history and politics of labor in New Orleans

Up the years with the Bettersons: Gender and parent education in interwar America.

Death in the shape of a young girl: women’s political violence in the Red Army Faction

The epistemological significance of possession entering the DSM

The First Social Security Beneficiary

SSA | Bloomberg

Risky or Relaxing? Exercise during Pregnancy in Britain, c.1930–1960

Treating marriage as “the sick entity”: Gender, emotional life, and the psychology of marriage improvement in postwar Britain.

Form meets function: A commentary on meta-analytic history

Winifred Rushforth and the Davidson Clinic for Medical Psychotherapy: a case study in the overlap of psychotherapy, Christianity and New Age spirituality

The faces of death: regional differentiation in cause-specific mortality in the past

‘S.W.’ and C.G. Jung: mediumship, psychiatry and serial exemplarity

The personal is scientific: Women, gender, and the production of sexological knowledge in Germany and Austria, 1900–1931.

Mother with Eight Children in Tenement Kitchen (circa 1910)

Community Service Society Photographs

Feminism and/in/as psychology: The public sciences of sex and gender

Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage

NZ History

This portrait of Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage was taken in 1935, the year the Labour government he led swept into power. This government is best remembered for its landmark social welfare reforms, especially the Social Security Act of 1938 and the state housing scheme.

‘Without decontextualisation’: the Stanley Royd Museum and the progressive history of mental health care

Holocaust Survivors In Canada Offers Cautionary Tale, Says Author

The Manitoban

But after 1950, with the expansion of immigration law to permit the arrival of more Jewish immigrants, government social service provision was stronger and the Jewish community was larger and more prepared for new arrivals. “They came to social services that were more developed, social workers who had better training, and also organizations and communities that had a better sense of the distinct needs of this particular immigrant group,” Goldberg said of the second wave.