Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945: The London Charity Organisation Society
Author:   R. Humphreys
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9780333968390


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   31 October 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945: The London Charity Organisation Society


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This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organisation Society. Politicians, social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and historians have been swayed by the strength of their propaganda. The Charity Organisation 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.

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Author:   R. Humphreys
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.890kg
ISBN:  

9780333968390


ISBN 10:   0333968395
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   31 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Beginnings of the London Charity Organization Society The First Five Years Developments by the Turn of the Century 1900 Onwards: A Half Century of Change and General Charity Organization Society Decline Charity Organization Outside London Reasons for Charity Organization Society Decline Notes Bibliography Index

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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.

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