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Civic Engagement - Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City (Hardcover)
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Civic Engagement - Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City (Hardcover)
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John Recchiuti recounts the history of a vibrant network of young
American scholars and social activists who helped transform a city
and a nation. New York, in the late Gilded Age and Progressive Era,
was the nation's financial capital, its principal hub for
immigration, and its premier center for the arts. It was also a
center of civic engagement: most of the nation's main reform
organizations were headquartered there. As public intellectuals,
members of the city's social science network championed the fight
for civil rights through the NAACP and National Urban League;
sought solutions to labor problems through the American Association
for Labor Legislation, National Consumers' League, and National
Child Labor Committee; founded the nation's first settlement
houses; and established the first center for social science and
social work, the New York School of Philanthropy. In New York,
which one group of social scientists called "the greatest social
science laboratory in the world," these men and women lived and
worked in Greenwich Village's working-class haunts, amid immigrant
poverty on the Lower East Side, and on Columbia University's Upper
West Side campus. They debated how much government should regulate
laissez-faire capitalism, whether poverty was caused by individual
character flaws, and how, through the New York Bureau of Municipal
Research, to thwart municipal corruption. Some promulgated a racist
eugenics, while others fought racism in the name of social science.
And, in their reach for leadership, they confronted an essential
question: was social science to be the herald of a reinvigorated
democracy, or an instrument of technocracy? In this deeply
researched study, Recchiuti focuses on more than a score of
Progressive reformers, including Florence Kelley, W. E. B. Du Bois,
E. R. A. Seligman, Charles Beard, Franz Boaz, Frances Perkins,
Samuel Lindsay, Edward Devine, Mary Simkhovitch, and George Edmund
Haynes. He reminds us how people from markedly diverse backgrounds
forged a movement to change a city and, beyond it, a nation.
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