Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era

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Label

Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era

Title remainder

survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era

Statement of responsibility

Jacob A.C. Remes

Creator

• Remes, Jacob A. C., 1980-

Author

• Remes, Jacob A. C., 1980-

Subject

• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
• Canada
• Disaster relief -- Social aspects
• Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
• Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Electronic books
• Fires
• Fires -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 20th century
• HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
• HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
• Halifax (N.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
• History
• Massachusetts -- Salem
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
• Power (Social sciences)
• Power (Social sciences) -- History -- 20th century
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Social conditions
• Solidarity -- Social aspects | History -- 20th century
• United States
• Working class
• Working class -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 20th century
• Working class -- Nova Scotia | Halifax -- History -- 20th century
• Nova Scotia -- Halifax
• 1900-1999

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

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• Ebook Central Academic Complete

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

363.34/8097309041

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

HV555.U6

LC item number

R46 2016eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The working class in American history