With Us Always

A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare

Contributions by Thomas M. Adams, Anthony Brundage, E Wayne Carp, Ellis W. Hawley, Elizabeth McKeown, Kathryn Norberg, Alice O'Connor, James T. Patterson, Brian Pullan Edited by Donald T. Critchlow, Charles H. Parker

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Publication date:

02 April 1998

Length of book:

276 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461622215

Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. 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. The prominent historians in this collection demonstrate how solutions to poverty are functions of culture, religion, and politics, and how social provisions for the poor have evolved across the centuries.

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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