Title Governing charities : church and state in Toronto's Catholic archdiocese, 1850s-1950s / Paula Maurutto

Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 24 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 24 Contents Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Origins of a Catholic Benevolent Enterprise, 1850s-1890s -- 2 Market Mechanisms and Charity Governance -- 3 From Catholic Charity to Catholic Welfare: The Impact of Social Work -- 4 Social Casework during the Depression -- 5 Private Policing and Surveillance of Catholics, 1920�1960 -- 6 The Role of Catholic Private Agencies in Community Corrections, 1890�1940 -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index Summary Annotation Governing Charities challenges received accounts of the welfare state by highlighting the complex web of relationships that characterize the delivery of social services. In tracing the connections between the Catholic Church in Toronto and provincial and municipal governments, Paula Maurutto takes issue with the view that the welfare state marks a modern, secular, and scientific progression from a pre-1920 "Golden Age" when churches dominated the voluntary sector. Maurutto details how welfare bureaucracies, as they began to expand during the 1930s and 1940s, did so by building stronger links with private voluntary agencies, not by disabling them. Far from being shunted aside, voluntary organizations such as Catholic charities became increasingly entrenched within the expanding welfare state. Standardized reports, state inspections, financial audits, and social work case records, to name only a few, were emblematic of the social scientific impulse that permeated the operations of Catholic charities and enabled them to more systematically police, discipline, and regulate the lives of relief recipients and those designated as moral and social "deviants." Notably, they allowed church authorities and the state to exercise greater control and supervision over the internal operations and procedures of charities, in effect enabling these institutions to govern the daily affairs of the voluntary sector Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-179) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Catholic Church -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Charities -- History Catholic Church -- Charities -- History SUBJECT Catholic Church fast Subject Public welfare -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Philanthropy & Charity. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Public welfare Charities Ontario -- Toronto Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2004401191 ISBN 9780773571020 0773571027 1282861123 9781282861121 9786612861123 6612861126

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