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Author: Boyd, Michelle Hebert
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Focusing on the days and months following the Halifax explosion of 1917, this study takes a look at the role of social workers in the wake of the disaster, as well as the class relations of the time. Exhaustively researched, this history clearly identifies the direct correlation between many of today's inherited social-work practices and attitudes with the social climate of that early relief effort. Marking the transition from charity work--where traditionally well-off volunteers passed judgment on their poorer neighbors--to professional social care, this analysis reflects on the lessons learned when newly arrived workers had to navigate the prevailing class structures while attempting to rebuild the lives of the Haligonians.

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Title Enriched by Catastrophe: Social Work and Social Conflict After the Halifax Explosion
Author Michelle Hebert Boyd
Binding Paperback
Pages 134
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, Ns
Publication date 2007-11
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781552662274 / 1552662276
Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.31 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.79 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: Nova Scotia
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917, Social service - Nova Scotia - Halifax -
Dewey Decimal Code 361.309

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Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2008, Page 176

About the author

Michelle Hbert Boyd is a consultant for the Public Health Agency of Canada.

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