Introduction: how civil society saved my father -- Charles Loring Brace: "To avert rather than cure" -- Jane Addams: from norms to reform -- Mary Richmond: from "scientific charity" to social work -- Grace Abbott from Nebraska: services rather than norms -- Wilbur Cohen and the scaling of the social service state -- Geoffrey Canada's revival of "middle-class values" -- Conclusion: reflections on social norms.
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