With Us Always - A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Engaging... Journal of American History Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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• Authors: Donald T. Parker Critchlow
• Assisted by: Donald T Critchlow (Editor), Donald T. Critchlow (Editor), Charles H Parker (Editor), Charles H. Parker (Editor), Parker Charles H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.1998
• EAN: 9780847689699
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8969-9
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Volunteer Work, Poverty & unemployment, Poverty and precarity, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy