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This chapter serves to frame Frances Perkins’s social work within the history of economic rights in the United States, highlighting each’s considerations of centrifugal and centripetal rights, examining closely the difference between the two. The New Deal’s framework coincides with this discussion of personal rights with detailed analysis of the economic mindset of historical figures in shaping FDR’s policy and Perkins’s social work. By providing background to the New Deal, particularly in its social work underpinnings, the chapter puts it in the context of the history of personal rights in America and in Perkins’s perspective.
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Otis L. Graham, Jr., Encore for Reform?: The Old Progressives and the New Deal (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 103.
Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (New York: The Viking Press, 1946), pp. 189–190.
Eisenstein, Give Us Bread but Give Us Roses: Working Women’s Consciousness in the United States, 1890 to the First World War (London: Routledge, 1983), p. 32.
George Martin, Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976), p. 218.
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Miller, S.P. (2016). Introduction: The Social Work of Desire. In: The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work: Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527813_1
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