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Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse: Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia and Britain

This 350pp/130,000-word study of social workers and poverty is the outcome of ten years research, funded partly by the Australian Research Council. Drawing upon two thousand case files written in the USA, Britain and Australia during the 1920s and 1930s, it is an innovative comparative study and occupied 50% of Peel’s research time during the REF period. It involved prolonged archival work in London, Boston, Minneapolis and Oregon, as well as Peel’s then home base in Melbourne. The study breaks new ground by including detailed dramatisations of particular cases, as a way of exploring the voices of the poor themselves.