Detailansicht
Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945
The London Charity Organisation Society
ISBN/EAN: 9780333968390
Umbreit-Nr.: 9054231
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiii, 228 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 31.10.2001
Auflage: 1/2001
- Zusatztext
- This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organization Society. Politicians, social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and historians have been swayed by the strength of their propaganda. The Charity Organization Society continues to be used as an institutional model to illustrate the alleged advantages of voluntarism over state benefits. Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945 exposes the misleading nature of many of its claims. It explains why they were shunned by other charities, treated with suspicion by parish clergy, disregarded by poor law guardians and seen as little different from the stigmatized poor law by those in need.
- Kurztext
- Makes an important contribution to our understanding of history, revising understandings of class relations and gender in Victorian and Edwardian EnglandCovers areas on charitable activity in the 1920s and 1930s that have been previously unexploredTopical: relates to the appeals of contemporary politicians to Victorian values
- Autorenportrait
- ROBERT HUMPHREYS is a Lecturer in Economic History at the London School of Economics. He is author of Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England and No Fixed Abode: A History of Responses to the Roofless and the Rootless in Britain.