With Us Always
A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare
Published on 2. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-8476-8970-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-8970-5 (9780847689705)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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
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