pt. 1. America awakens to poverty, c. 1830-1897. The problem emerges. Shifting attitudes. The charitable impulse. The rise of social work. The condition of the poor: late nineteenth-century social investigations. The discovery of poverty in literature. The poverty theme in art and illustration
pt. 2. The search for truth, c. 1897-1917. The new view of poverty. A factual generation. The literary record. Art for life's sake
pt. 3. Social striving, c. 1897-1925. The home and the child. Women's hours and wages. The common welfare.
