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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruswick, Brent
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poverty.
Poor > Services for.
Nature and nurture.
Charities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Pauvrete > États-Unis > Histoire.
Heredite et milieu > États-Unis > Histoire.
Pauvres > Services > États-Unis > Histoire.
Poverty > United States > History.
Nature and nurture > United States > History.
Charities > United States > History.
Poor > Services for > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9780253006387

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