The Uses of Charity : the Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis /

Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and children and the importance of charity and w...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Mandler, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Subjects:
1800-1899
Urban poor > Europe > History > 19th century.
Poor > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Charities > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Europe > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pauvres > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Charities
Poor
Urban poor
Europe
New York (State) > New York
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Poverty and Charity in the Nineteenth- Century Metropolis: An Introduction
  • 2. "Total Institutions" and the Survival Strategies of the Laboring Poor in Antwerp, 1770-1860
  • 3. The Survival of the Unfit: Welfare Policies and Family Maintenance in Nineteenth-Century London
  • 4. Preserving the Future of France: Aid to the Poor and Pregnant in Nineteenth-Century Paris
  • 5. Waifs and Strays: Child Abandonment, Foster Care, and Families in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
  • 6. Hungry Children: Housewives and London Charity, 1870-1918
  • 7. To Give and to Receive: Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility Among Jews in Paris, 1880-1914
  • 8. The History of an Impudent Poor Woman in New York City from 1918 to 1923
  • Contributors
  • Index

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