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
Table of Contents:
  • 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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