History (4,939 posts)

Eugene Kinckle Jones The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940

The nature of delusion: psychologically explicable? psychologically inexplicable? philosophically explicable? Part 2

Entrenched reductionisms: The bête noire of psychiatry.

Pavel Ivanovich Karpov (1873-1932?) – the Russian Prinzhorn: art of the insane in Russia

Psychogeriatrics in England in the 1950s: greater knowledge with little impact on provision of services

Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London

Early Roots of Western Medicine and a Pioneer of Social Work in Korea: Dr. Kung Sun Oh (1878–1963)

Invisible immigrants: the English in Canada since 1945

Psychiatric governance, völkisch corporatism, and the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (1912-26). Part 1

Family Authority, Violence against Parents, and Parricide in Russia, 1600-1800

No Irish Need Deny: Evidence for the Historicity of NINA Restrictions in Advertisements and Signs

Activism in the US: Civil Rights Movements

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Still image from a WALB newsfilm clip of Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy leading a kneel-in and being arrested in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 27

Migration, settlement and belonging in Europe 1500–1930s: comparative perspectives

Masculinity and the paradox of violence in American fiction, 1950–1975

Efforts to Curtail the Spread of Adult Entertainment in Portland, Oregon, through the Use of Public Policy and Urban Planning, 1970-1987

Arriving at Ellis Island (1907)

Nixon’s marijuana problem: youth politics and ‘law and order,’ 1968–72

Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290–1834

Living on the edge: welfare and the urban poor in 1930s Beijing

The making of the Irish poor law, 1815–43

Bipolar disorder and its outcomes: two cohorts, 1875-1924 and 1994-2007, compared

History of Post-Secondary Education, Social and Health Funding in Canada

The British Working Class, 1832–1940

Canada’s global villagers: CUSO in development, 1961-1986

Seafarers Past: An uncaptioned photo from SCI’s Archives used in a recent presentation on the history and future health and welfare of seafarers

Experiences of Charity, 1250–1650

‘The Germans are beating us at our own game: American eugenics and the German sterilization law of 1933

Multiculturalism’s categories and transnational ties: the Bangladeshi campaign for independence in Britain, 1971

“We have our own struggle”: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker and the avant-garde of community action, the Lower East Side, 1968

Beyond trade unions’ strategy? The social construction of precarious workers organizing in the city of Buenos Aires

School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program

Woman’s Special Enemy: Female Enmity in Criminal Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century

National Welfare Rights Organization (1966-1975)

Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider

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Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider

Irish migrants in new communities: seeking the fair land?

Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics

Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, Director of the Atlanta School of Social Work from 1922 to 1927, is probably the best known of the African American pioneers in social work. He is scarcely well known; the Encyclopedia of Social Work did not include his biography until 1987 and schools of social work rarely note and less often study his contributions to the field.

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

The Guardian | Rex Features

After Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took power, the rest of the package soon followed: massive tax cuts for the rich, the crushing of trade unions, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services. Through the IMF, the World Bank, the Maastricht treaty and the World Trade Organisation, neoliberal policies were imposed – often without democratic consent – on much of the world. Most remarkable was its adoption among parties that once belonged to the left: Labour and the Democrats, for example. As Stedman Jones notes, “it is hard to think of another utopia to have been as fully realised.”