Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era /
"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 surv...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2016]
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| Edice: | Working class in American history.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1130716 |
Obsah:
- Introduction
- "Organization without any organization" : order and disorder in exploded Halifax
- "A great power had swept over it" : politics and power after the Salem fire
- "It is easy enough to establish camps" : geographies of community and resistance in burned Salem
- "The relief would have had to pay someone" : Halifax families and the work of relief
- A desirable measure of responsibility" : Halifax's churches and unions respond to the progressive state
- "The sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to come" : Salem workers build power in the church and factory
- Conclusion : cities of comrades.