Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England [electronic resource] / by R. Humphreys.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9780230375437
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/5219
Yazar
Humphreys, R.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1995.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XII, 226 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
Politicians, social administrators, economists, biographers and historians have shared the belief that the Charity Organisation Society effectively rationalised relief to the Victorian poor and illustrated the advantages of caring voluntarism over impersonal state handouts. It is now clear that in provincial England these impressions were illusory. The alleged sinful profligacy of other charitable bodies was persistently condemned by the Charity Organisation Society for fostering latant sin amongst the poor. By exposing how they failed in practice to satisfy their own prescriptions for appropriate poor relief this volume asks whether the Charity Organisation Society were themselves morally equipped to castigate others about sin.
Konu
Great Britain __ History.
Social history.
Economic history.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Economic History.
Modern History.
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