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This chapter discusses the New Deal’s reconfiguration of artistic modernism and early American applications of economic rights so as to incorporate a new vision of social work.
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Miller, S.P. (2016). The New Deal as 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_8
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