Work and Hope: The Spirituality of the Radical Pietist Communitarians

1970 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Durnbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Issue ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Utopian Thought

Several essayists in a recent issue ofDaedalusnoted with regret the absence of utopian thought among twentieth-century intellectuals, a lack they held to be detrimental to progress. The tragic events of the century, compounded by disenchantment with the poor taste and judgment of the supposedly liberated masses, have turned writers to gloomy prophecies of totalitarian and science-ridden worlds of the f uture. Dystopia rather than utopia is ascendant, they claim.1

What Was Gained

2018 ◽  
pp. 286-310
Author(s):  
George R. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Welfare Reforms

This concluding chapter summarizes the book's major findings. The road to the welfare state of the 1940s was not a wide and straight thoroughfare through Victorian and Edwardian Britain. As the previous chapters have made clear, the story of British social policy from 1830 to 1950 is really two separate stories joined together in the years immediately before the Great War. The first is a tale of increasing stinginess toward the poor by the central and local governments, while the second is the story of the construction of a national safety net, culminating in the Beveridge Report and Labour's social policies of 1946–48. The prototype for the welfare reforms of the twentieth century cannot be found in the Victorian Poor Law. The chapter then offers some thoughts regarding the reasons for the shifts in social welfare policy from the 1830s to the 1940s.

Southern Enclosure as American Literature

Black Market ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 138-183
Author(s):  
Aaron Carico
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
New Deal ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
Paper Money ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Land Grabs ◽  
Racial History

Set against the backdrop of Southern land grabs in the 1830s and again in the 1930s that were meant to sustain the cotton economy, this chapter studies the literary representation of the poor whites who were side-lined by the slave plantation’s expansion and modernization, and who were then remade into a national folk by literary elites. Facilitated by these Southern enclosures, the ambivalent canonization of poor whites as the nation’s folk would have a decisive and determining influence on the constitution—and the racial covenant—of American literature, and not only on its Americaness but also on its literariness. Slavery was the condition of possibility for this literature, but its role, along with that of the enslaved, was silenced. From frontier humor to the New Criticism, this chapter reveals a submerged racial history beneath the canonization of U.S. national literature, which was undertaken in the early twentieth century in U.S. literary criticism, explainingthe roleof New Deal photography, of paper money and paperwork, and modernism in literary style in the constitution of American literature as both discipline and object.

Marching under Flags Black and Red

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaetan Heroux ◽  
Bryan D. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Material Development ◽  
The Poor

This chapter takes a close look at turn-of-the-twentieth century Toronto, offering an account of mass distress that considers how the poor, waged and unwaged, were subjected to state-based regimes of disciple and how they struggled to fight back. By the time Toronto had embarked on its Age of Industry in the 1870s and 1880s, major enterprises employed almost thirteen thousand workers in a population of roughly eighty-five thousand. Decades of socioeconomic differentiation and dislocation had served as the primitive accumulation that fueled the Queen City's material development. Economic crises, devastating in their human toll, punctuated the 1830s, the 1850s, and the 1870s, and would close the century in the 1890s.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN THE JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION IN THE 30S OF THE XX CENTURY

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
T.S. Brekhova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Personnel Policy ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
System Formation ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Civil Cases

The article deals with the peculiarities of the judicial system formation in the Jewish Autonomous region in the 30s of the twentieth century. The article provides information on the functioning of regional and people's courts of that period. The author also shows the specifi cs of the regional administration personnel policy in relation to the justice authorities and substantiates the reasons for the poor quality of criminal and civil cases consideration.

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