Structuring Poverty in the Windy City Autonomy, Virtue, and Isolation in Post-Fire Chicago【電子書籍】[ Joel E. Black ]

＜p＞The Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2,600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In the aftermath the mayor handed all relief duties to the commercial elite at the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. This was, as Joel E. Black’s provocative study shows, a critical decisionーone that ensured that Chicago’s physical rebuilding would be coupled with an equally ambitious rebuilding of the city’s poor, as reformers, social scientists, and journalists set out to interpret and define Chicago’s jobless, wayward, and migrating populations. What emerged from this effort was a new form of social and quasi-governmental authority based on povertyーa web of political and legal theories and practices rooted in the conditions of the poor. This authority is the subject of ＜em＞Structuring Poverty in the Windy City＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the decades after the Chicago Fire, the process begun by the Relief and Aid Society would expand outwardーfrom jobless men to worki．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る