The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work, 1st ed. 2015 Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government

The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work concerns the 'hand' the New Deal plays from the perspective of early American History in which government and business cooperation is assumed and economic rights are addressed collectively whereas political rights are considered individually. The New Deal reconfigures this 'ratio' of rights by folding 'social work' into the aims of government. Miller describes the vital part Frances Perkins and her personal history play in this development.

Introduction: The Social Work of Desire
1. Bold, Persistent Social Work
2. A Method of Moral Progress
3. The Fifty-Four Hour Bill and Social Work's Alternative Professionalization
4. The Perkins Persona
5. Enter Populists. Enter Progressives. Enter Social Workers. Enter Frances Perkins
6. America's Founding Economic Rights Today: Modern Government
7. The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire
8. The First Charge upon the Government
9. Between Social Work and Government: Investigating the Triangle Fire and Perkins's Conference Method
10. Social Work through Government
11. The First Boondoggle Wasn't a Boondoggle: The New Deal as the Social Work of Desire and The Heart of Work

Stephen Paul Miller is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA. He is author of several books including The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance (1999) and several poetry books including There's Only One God and You're Not It (2011) and Being with a Bullet (2007). He is co-editor of Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (2009), and The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets (2001). Miller was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.