Macro-level practitioners can learn from progressive reforms, engineered and implemented by early "reformers," that widened the net of carceral control. Further research is needed to explore social works correctional history, prisonwork in particular. This may be taken up in the form of archival ...
One of the problems which urban social reformers in the Progressive era regarded as most threatning to the social order was the collapse of "community," especially in urban areas which was growing at a rapid pace around the turn of the twentieth century. According to them, unlike the nineteen...
When the word "social engineer" occurred in the New York Times for the first time in 1887 it was used to denote a "party fixer." The term "social engineering" was launched for use in industry by William Tolman in 1899 and adopted by social reformers during the progressive era. By the ...
An American social worker, activist, educator and economist,Edith Abbottearned a doctorate in political economy from the University of Chicago in 1905, earning a Carnegie Fellowship in 1905 and learning from the social reformers Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who were looking for new ways to deal with...
This essay situates American health reformers, during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century, in the broader context of reform in American social policy and in the tissue of relationships that connected reformist impulses with the social scien
No such reform is remotely likely in the Biden era. Would-be reformers should use this time to prepare the ground for essential arguments to come. It is worthwhile, therefore, to review the design and fiscal condition of Social Security, account for the changing character of retirement security...
Thomas Leonard's 2016 book Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era argues that exclusionary views on eugenics, race, immigration, and gender taint the intellectual legacy of progressive economic... MI Steinbaum,BA Weisberger - 《Journal of Economic Literature...
Changing all of this will be a huge undertaking for committed reformers, and hardly any of us are even talking about it, let alone having ideas about where to start. I certainly don’t have an answer to the whole problem, yet I do have one suggestion for a policy we can advocate for...
reformers. It is an antiseptic, Darwinian perspective without recognizing that Veblen had only sarcasm to resist the flood of rationalization that the financialization of industry of his day was all for the best, not an about-face from what the classical economists and Progressive Era had hoped ...
Female reformers such as these translated their expert knowledge of the working conditions of women and children into an ethic of public responsibility that matched and complemented the initiative of academic new liberals such as H. C. Adams for finding ways of translating communal judgments regarding...