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Almost Worthy – The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877–1917

Autor Brent Ruswick
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2012
In the 1880s, social reform leaders warned that the "unworthy" poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with statistics and confused notions of evolution, these "scientific charity" reformers founded organizations intent on limiting access to relief by the most morally, biologically, and economically unfit. Brent Ruswick examines a prominent national organization for scientific social reform and poor relief in Indianapolis in order to understand how these new theories of poverty gave birth to new programs to assist the poor.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253006349
ISBN-10: 0253006341
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 10 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 162 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Wiley

Cuprins

Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Big Moll and the Science of Scientific Charity; 2. "Armies of Vice": Evolution, Heredity, and the Pauper Menace; 3. Friendly Visitors or Scientific Investigators? Befriending and Measuring the Poor; 4. Opposition, Depression, and the Rejection of Pauperism; 5. "I See No Terrible Army": Environmental Reform and Radicalism in the Scientific Charity Movement; 6 The Potentially Normal Poor: Professional Social Work, Psychology, and the End of Scientific CharityEpilogue; Bibliography; Index

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Examines a prominent organization for scientific social reform and poor relief