| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations |
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Philanthropic and nonprofit studies |
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Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Poor -- Services for -- United States -- History
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Charities -- United States -- History
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Nature and nurture -- United States -- History
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Poverty -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Charities
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Nature and nurture
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Poor -- Services for
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Poverty
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012026049 |
| ISBN |
9780253006387 |
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0253006384 |
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