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Poverty and policy in American history
Title:
Poverty and policy in American history
Author:
Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014.
ISBN:
9780124017627
9781483273891
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Publication Information:
New York : Academic Press, ©1983.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Studies in social discontinuity
Studies in social discontinuity.
Contents:
Front Cover; Poverty and Policy in American History; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. FAMILIES AND WELFARE: A PHILADELPHIA CASE; The Sullivan Family; Themes in the History of the Sullivan Family; CHAPTER 2. POORHOUSES, PAUPERS, AND TRAMPS; PART I. FROM FAMILY REFUGE TO OLD AGE HOME: THE DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK, POORHOUSE FROM 1829 TO 1886; Aggregate Trends in Poorhouse Composition; Conclusion; PART II. EARLY SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE CAUSES OF PAUPERISM; The Design of the Report; The Sample
Institutional Demography: Age, Sex, BirthplaceHoyt and the Causes of Pauperism; The Act of 1875 and the Creation of Poorhouse Records; Poorhouse Demography; Conclusion; PART III. ""THE MORPHOLOGY OF EVIL""; The Problem of Social Categories; The Demography of Dependence; Conclusion; PART IV. NEW YORK'S TRAMPS AND THE PROBLEM OF CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION IN THE 1870S; The Tramp Problem; The Characteristics of Tramps; The Problem of Causal Attribution; CHAPTER 3. AMERICAN HISTORIANS AND DEPENDENCE
Historians and Philanthropy: Urban Masses and Moral Order in America as the Culmination of a Historiographical TraditionHistorians and Institutions: David Rothman and Asylums; The History of Public Welfare: Roy Lubove on Social Insurance; EPILOGUE: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WELFARE HISTORY; APPENDIX; INDEX
Abstract:
Poverty and Policy in American History is about people who needed help in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is about the ways in which the perception of poverty and other forms of dependence affected the development of public programs and the conduct of voluntary reform. It also about the ways in which people have written about welfare. The book contains three chapters and opens with a description of the life and death of a poor family in early twentieth-century Philadelphia based on case records. It attempts to show many of the themes in the lives of the poor through the close.
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Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HV91 .K35 1983 | 1178800-1001 | Elsevier E-Book Collections | Searching... |
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