TY  - GEN
T1  - Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era
T2  - Working class in American history.
A1  - Remes, Jacob A. C., 1980-
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn933297777
AB  - "A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States-Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money. In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A.C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive 'solutions' on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape. Innovative and engaging, Disaster Citizenship excavates the forgotten networks of solidarity and obligation in an earlier time while simultaneously suggesting new frameworks in the emerging field of critical disaster studies"--
OP  - 283
CN  - HV555.U6 R46 2016eb
SN  - 9780252097942
SN  - 0252097947
SN  - 9780252039836
SN  - 0252039831
SN  - 9780252081378
SN  - 0252081374
KW  - Disaster relief : Social aspects : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Disaster relief : Social aspects : Canada : History : 20th century.
KW  - Fires : Massachusetts : Salem : History : 20th century.
KW  - Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917.
KW  - Working class : Massachusetts : Salem : History : 20th century.
KW  - Working class : Nova Scotia : Halifax : History : 20th century.
KW  - Solidarity : Social aspects : History : 20th century.
KW  - Power (Social sciences) : History : 20th century.
KW  - Salem (Mass.) : Social conditions : 20th century.
KW  - Halifax (N.S.) : Social conditions : 20th century.
KW  - Disaster relief : History. : 20th century : United States.
KW  - Disaster relief : Social aspects. : 20th century : Canada.
KW  - Working class : History. : 20th century : Salem, Massachusetts.
KW  - Disaster relief : Social aspects. : 20th century : United States.
KW  - Fires : History. : 20th century : Salem.
KW  - Solidarity : Social aspects. : 20th century.
KW  - Relief Work : history
KW  - Disasters : history
KW  - Community-Institutional Relations
KW  - Community Networks : history
KW  - Community Integration : history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Nova Scotia
KW  - Secours aux victimes de catastrophes : Aspect social : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Secours aux victimes de catastrophes : Aspect social : Canada : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Incendies : Massachusetts : Salem : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Explosion de Halifax, Halifax, N.-É., 1917.
KW  - Travailleurs : Massachusetts : Salem : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Travailleurs : Nouvelle-Écosse : Halifax : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Médecine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Labor & Industrial Relations.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Disasters & Disaster Relief.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : 20th century.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Infrastructure.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Disaster relief : Social aspects
KW  - Fires
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Working class
KW  - Canada
KW  - Massachusetts : Salem
KW  - Nova Scotia : Halifax
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -