Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor
during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case
files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to
London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected
Horse" is a pioneering comparative study that examines how these
stories of poverty were narrated and reshaped by ethnic diversity,
economic crisis, and war.Probing the similarities and differences
in the ways Americans, Australians, and Britons understood and
responded to poverty, Mark Peel draws a picture of social work that
is based in the sometimes fraught encounters between the poor and
their interpreters. He uses dramatization to bring these encounters
to life--joining Miss Cutler and that resurrected horse are Miss
Lindstrom and the fried potatoes and Mr. O'Neil and the seductive
client--and to give these people a voice. Adding new dimensions to
the study of charity and social work, this book is essential to
understanding and tackling poverty in the twenty-first century.
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