Overview

Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare. The prominent historians in this collection demonstrate how solutions to poverty are functions of culture, religion, and politics, and how social provisions for the poor have evolved across the centuries.

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Author:   Donald T. Critchlow ,  Charles H. Parker ,  Thomas M. Adams ,  Anthony Brundage
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9780847689699

ISBN 10:   0847689697
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   16 April 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Charity and Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe Chapter 3 Poor Relief and Community in the Early Dutch Republic Chapter 4 Religious Charity and Cultural Norms in Counter-Reformation France Chapter 5 The Provision of Work as Assistance and Correction in France/ 1534-1848 Chapter 6 Good Government and Christian Charity in Early Modern Italy Chapter 7 Private Charity and the 1834 Poor Law Part 8 PArt II. United States Relief and Welfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chapter 9 Orphanages vs. Adoption: The Triumph of Biological Kinship/ 1800-1933 Chapter 10 Claiming the Poor Chapter 11 Herbert Hoover, Associationalism, and the Great Depression Relief Crisis of 1930-1933 Chapter 12 Neither Charity Nor Relief: The War on Poverty and the Effort to Redefine the Basis of Social Provision Chapter 13 Implementing Family Planning Policy: Philanthropic Foundations and the Modern Welfare State Chapter 14 ""Reforming"" Relief and Welfare: Thoughts on 1834 and 1996 Chapter 15 Index"

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Engaging... Journal of American History

Author Information

Donald T. Critchlow is editor of the Journal of Policy History and his books include The Brookings Institution: Expertise and Influence in a Democratic Society, Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation, and Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government. Charles H. Parker is assistant professor of history at Saint Louis University and author of The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland.

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