Title Disaster citizenship : survivors, solidarity, and power in the Progressive Era / Jacob A.C. Remes

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The working class in American history Working class in American history. Contents Introduction -- "Organization without any organization" : order and disorder in exploded Halifax -- "A great power had swept over it" : politics and power after the Salem fire -- "It is easy enough to establish camps" : geographies of community and resistance in burned Salem -- "The relief would have had to pay someone" : Halifax families and the work of relief -- A desirable measure of responsibility" : Halifax's churches and unions respond to the progressive state -- "The sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to come" : Salem workers build power in the church and factory -- Conclusion : cities of comrades Summary "A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States-Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw 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 institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained 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. Innovative and engaging, Disaster Citizenship excavates the forgotten networks of solidarity and obligation in an earlier time while simultaneously suggesting new frameworks in the emerging field of critical disaster studies"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-276) and index Notes Print version record Subject Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Fires -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 20th century Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917. Working class -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 20th century Working class -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century Solidarity -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century Power (Social sciences) -- History -- 20th century Disaster relief -- History. -- 20th century -- United States Disaster relief -- Social aspects. -- 20th century -- Canada Working class -- History. -- 20th century -- Salem, Massachusetts Disaster relief -- Social aspects. -- 20th century -- United States Fires -- History. -- 20th century -- Salem Solidarity -- Social aspects. -- 20th century Relief Work -- history Disasters -- history Community-Institutional Relations Community Networks -- history Community Integration -- history History, 20th Century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Disaster relief -- Social aspects Fires Power (Social sciences) Social conditions Working class SUBJECT Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Halifax (N.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Massachusetts https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008404 Nova Scotia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009674 Subject Canada Massachusetts -- Salem Nova Scotia -- Halifax United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780252097942 0252097947

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