Guardian | Pa/PA Archive/Press Association Images
Ranks of police face the picket line at Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham in June 1984.
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Why sociologists abandoned the sick role concept
The concept of the sick role entered sociology in 1951 when Talcott Parsons creatively separated the sick person out of the doctor–patient dyad.
America’s Town Meeting of the Air (1935)
SSA
In this broadcast from December 1935, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is defending and explaining the recently passed Social Security Act, while journalist George E. Sokolsky is attacking the new legislation.
The Social Work of a Suburban Church (1907)
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Wine drinking school children did poorer school work than abstainers
Brown University Library | Scientific Temperance Federation American Issue Publishing Company
The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada
Despite its unprecedented mass mortality and recent popularity among historians, the 1918–19 Spanish influenza pandemic rarely figures into national histories. Similarly, national, social, and political histories rarely inform histories of this pandemic.
National Institute of Health Plan for Social Work Research: Progress Report (2007)
Review of Cold war social science: Knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature, and working knowledge: Making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn.
Richard Titmuss: Forty years on
Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was enormously influential in shaping the post-war welfare state and created the discipline that we now call social policy. It is now forty years since he died. What would he have made of the present state of welfare? The present state of social policy? Welfare reformers frequently talk of going back to Beveridge. Should we not think of going back to Titmuss?
Death and taxes: understanding the death duty registers
Advice to a drunken father (1840-60?)
Brown University Library
Arnold Toynbee: University Settlement
History of Social Work
Arnold Toynbee (1852-1881) died before the age of thirty but nevertheless in his short life as a scholar his thinking did much to change how education could be developed through work in the poorer parts of Britain’s cities. He lectured in economic history at Oxford University where he was very critical of the effects of the industrial revolution which he saw emerging all around him.
Settlement Houses and the Great Depression (1975)
Cornell University Library | JA Trollander
Vagrancy in Law and Practice under the Old Poor Law
Social Work of the New York Schools (July 1, 1912)
Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York
Communism, the cold war, and a company town: the rise and fall of UE Local 709
The Catholic Counter-Reformation and the idea of hunger. A close reading of two appeals for alms from the Paris area in the year 1662
The Catholic Counter-Reformation and the idea of hunger. A close reading of two appeals for alms from the Paris area in the year 1662
Duncan Campbell Scott and residential schools
Abstainers had one-third less accidents (1913)
Brown University Library | Scientific Temperance FederationAmerican Issue Publishing Company
Report of the Year’s Work (1895)
Cornell University Library
The Child Welfare Manual: A Handbook of Child Nature and Nuture for Parents and Teachers (1919)
University Society
A Manual for Moral Welfare Workers (1920)
Board of Temperance and Moral Welfare, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Possession or Insanity?: Two Views from the Victorian Lunatic Asylum
1819 Thomas Chalmers
History of Social Work | en.wikipedia.org
Thomas Chalmers statue, George Street Edinburgh
The Professional Organization of Social Work (1922)
Sage Publications | American Academy of Political and Social Science
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia
1817 Elizabeth Fry: Angel of the prisons
History of Social Work | BBC
Elizabeth Fry reading the bible to prisoners at Newgate Prison.
Child Welfare: A List of Books and References to Periodicals in the Chicago Public Library (1911)
Chicago Public Library | Child Welfare Exhibit
Living in a railway town
Norman Haire and the Study of Sex
Equal time: television and the civil rights movement
Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns
Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
Voices from the Workhouse
Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse – in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution.
Tracking Down Lewis Hine’s Forgotten Child Laborers
Time | L Hine/LoC
Addie Card, spinner in cotton mill, 12 years old, North Pownal, Vermont, 1910.
Writing New Japan in Sugamo, 1948-1952: The Allied Occupation and Conflicted Democracy
Portland in the 1960s: stories from the counterculture
Reeducation through work? Mountain roads in the Spanish concentration universe (Western Pyrenees, 1939–1942)
This article deals with the forced labor system within the Spanish Concentration Universe, mainly that related to work battalions that were under the control of the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, involved in work consisting of opening roads along the Western Pyrenees after Spanish Civil War.
The African-American Labor Supply after Reconstruction: AddedWorker Effects in Urban Families
The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Portraitist of the Poor and the Famous
Spiegel | F Stein
Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR
‘The true social molecule’. Industrialization, paternalism and the family. Half a century in Le Creusot (1836–86)
From Stephenson to Suburbia: the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to the Chilterns
Buying the farm: peace and war on a sixties commune
Migration in historical East Asia: new sources and new methods
History of the Great American Smokeout
The limits of transnational solidarity: the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Swaziland and Zimbabwean crises
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the main union federation in South Africa, was instrumental in ending apartheid. This paper evaluates COSATU’s post-apartheid role in working for democracy elsewhere in Southern Africa.
Léon Jouhaux, Louis Saillant and the national and international in transnational trade unionism
The history of transnational trade unionism has been analysed in terms of mutual assistance, regulating global capital, augmenting the legitimacy, prestige and power of unions and their leaders, and providing avenues for states to prosecute national interests. From the 1920s to the 1980s, international organisations of trade unionists constituted a site of struggle between the antagonistic philosophies of transnationalism and trade unionism of Communists, social democrats and liberals, the USSR and the capitalist democracies.
