Pioneers in Social Welfare by Edith Abbott
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Abbott, Edith. Some American Pioneers in Social Welfare: Selected Documents… University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 1937. First Edition.
Original history and who’s who of early American Social Workers, written by social economist Dr. Edith Abbott, Assistant Director of the Research Department of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy and subsequently Dean of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration the same year she was head of the National Conference on Social Welfare.
Described by the World Economic Forum as one of the “women who transformed economics”, in addition to her teaching roles at Chicago and at the London School of Economics, Edith Abbott was involved in the creation of the US Social Security Act of 1935 for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration in the lead up to this publication.
Who better to tell you about pioneers of American social welfare than the grandmother of the entire system?
189pp. 8vo. Printed paper wraps discolored along top edges, sunned and fading. Corners bumped. Pencil mark on top fore corner. Pages clean. Very good condition. One copy found in OCLC as of April 2020.
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