Almost worthy : the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 /

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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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruswick, Brent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
Temas:
Poor > Services for > United States > History.
Charities > United States > History.
Nature and nurture > United States > History.
Poverty > United States > History.
Pauvres > Services > États-Unis > Histoire.
Hérédité et milieu > États-Unis > Histoire.
Pauvreté > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Charities
Nature and nurture
Poor > Services for
Poverty
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity
  • "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace
  • Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor
  • Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism
  • "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement
  • The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.

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