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

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A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era–beliefs started to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the US-Canada borderlands–the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917–saw working class survivors as a substitute turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and members of the family for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the US 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 atypical people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-assist, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods–though regularly quick and effective–remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding bizarre 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 at the same time as concurrently suggesting new frameworks in the emerging field of critical disaster studies.

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