Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (Working Class in American History),New

Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (Working Class in American History),New

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A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Erabeliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United StatesCanada borderlandsthe Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917saw 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 institutionsboth formal and informalthat ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of selfhelp, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methodsthough often quick and effectiveremained 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.

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