![]() ![]() ![]() Bob spurned any distinction between himself and other residents, calling himself a “resourceful friend”. He always wanted to show what could be done to motivate and involve people and bring communities together. The single parents and unemployed people who ran the projects were for Bob evidence of the possibilities of working-class collective spirit and individual integrity.Īfter a decade in Bath, in 1987 he went to live and work on the vast and deprived Easterhouse estate in Glasgow. He highlighted the desperate struggles of those with whom he worked and lived, but he also emphasised their strengths and ability to run their own lives. To reduce poverty, he believed, was not enough. Many of his books had a pleasing combination of observation, anecdote and research. As an academic Bob had published the groundbreaking Trading in Children: A Study of Private Fostering (1973), but, in his new life, he produced a veritable flood of books, articles and letters to newspapers. ![]()
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