Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914. Allen F. DavisWashington Gladden: Prophet of the Social Gospel. Jacob H. DornBeloved Lady: A History of Jane Addams' Ideas on Reform and Peace. John C. FarrellHomer Folks: Pioneer in Social Welfare. Walter I. Trattner

1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-487
Author(s):  
Arthur Mann
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Social Settlements ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

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Gertrude Weil ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Rogoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Smith College ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Social Welfare Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
College Educated

Educated at the Horace Mann school and Smith College, Weil represented a rising generation of college-educated women who were scientifically trained in new ideologies of social theory and public reform but found themselves unsuited for any particular career. Feeling the conflict of social and family claims, as defined by Jane Addams, Weil prized her autonomy but returned to her native Goldsboro. There she sought to move social welfare programs from their origins in the Social Gospel and religious societies to scientific principles of social reform. She began her social welfare career working with impoverished school children and joined Home Culture Clubs and the local Woman's Clubs.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Elaine Allen Lechtreck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Martin Luther King

The introduction includes Bible verses cited by ministers to defend segregation and verses to oppose segregation. There are slices of the history of the United States, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American history. The southern states, where white ministers confronted segregation, are identified. The term “minister” is explained as well as the variety of labels given these ministers ranging from “Liberal,” Progressive,” “Neo-Orthodox,” “Evangelical Liberal,” “open conservative,” ‘Last Hurrah of the Social Gospel Movement” to “Trouble Maker,” “Traitor, “ “Atheist,” “Communist,” “N_____ Lover.” Rachel Henderlite, the only woman minister mentioned in the book, is identified. Synopses of the book’s seven chapters are included. Comments by historians David Chappell, Charles Reagan Wilson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernest Campbell, and Thomas Pettigrew are cited.

Comment on William J. Novak: Institutional Economics and the Progressive Movement for the Social Control of American Business

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-699
Author(s):  
Susie J. Pak
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
American Business ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Political Economy

William J. Novak's engaging historiography is at once a recovery project and a prolegomenon to a revised history of political economy. His article chronicles the achievements of Progressive Era institutional economists and critiques the way they have been obscured by the shadow of the Chicago School of economics. Why do the Progressives deserve to be recovered and remembered? According to Novak, it is because they “underwrote one of the more fundamental governmental revolutions in modern times” and created the foundations for the “social control of business” (pp. 676, 672).

Walter Rauschenbusch and Education for Reform

1967 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-469
Author(s):  
John R. Aiken
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch

While it is true that the social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch is more than the religious strain of the progressive movement, there is no doubt that he sought a christianized social order, one in “harmony with the ethical convictions which we identify with Christ.” And he was much concerned with the Kingdom of God, the “growing perfection in the collective life of humanity, in our laws, in the customs of society, in the institutions for education, and of the administration of mercy.”

Americanization of Karl August Rauschenbusch, 1816–1899

1955 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Carl E. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Early History ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

An interest in August Rauschenbusch may be motivated by the hope that perchance in the life of the father we could discover factors which would illuminate the social-gospel interests of his more famous son. The importance of Rauschenbusch in the early history of German Baptists in North America, particularly as founder and virtual head of the “German Department” of Rochester Theological Seminary for thirty-two years (1858–90), should alone, it could be urged, establish his significance for the religious history of that day. However, it is the primary and less ambitious purpose of this paper to place Rauschenbusch within the framework of the German and American religious situation of the mid-19th century on the basis, largely, of twenty-two of his unpublished letters and a smaller number addressed to him, running from April 12, 1845 to September 27, 1854. These were recently discovered in the archives of the Rhenish Missionary Institute, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany.

Institutional Economics and the Progressive Movement for the Social Control of American Business

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-696
Author(s):  
William J. Novak
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
American Business ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This article investigates the history of the Progressive Era effort to develop new techniques and technologies of control over American business and corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A revolution in Progressive economic regulation was rooted in the intellectual work of the so-called institutional economists—particularly in the context of what economists and lawyers like Richard Ely, John Commons, and Walton Hamilton ultimately talked about as the movement for the “social control” of business, with distinct emphasis on the legal and regulatory “foundations” of modern capitalism. With increased attention to dynamics rather than statics, the real social economy rather than ideal rational actors, and historical and institutional rather than theoretical and abstract renderings of business, industry, and the market, the institutionalists were directly concerned with problems of control, particularly those mechanisms of control available through law, politics, the state, and new technologies of legislative and administrative regulation.

“People Power”: Social Planners and Conflicting Memories of the Australian Assistance Plan

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-213
Author(s):  
Carolyn Collins ◽  
Melanie Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), Gough Whitlam’s controversial programme of social welfare reform in the 1970s, was promoted as a national experiment in “people power.” But the outpouring of often highly critical evaluations during and immediately after its brief existence failed to take into account the experiences of the programme’s grassroots workers. This article focuses on the oral history component of a wider history of the AAP, and on those employed to realise Whitlam’s vision – the social planners – comparing their backgrounds, roles, expectations, and frequently conflicting experiences as they shaped, and were shaped by, this “bold but crazy” experiment.

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