Writing case records was central to the professionalization of social work, a task that by its very nature "created clients, authorities, problems, and solution
Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Bosto
Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women’s survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis o
Many Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Traveling enabled men to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage, while Syr
In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerate