The Uses of Charity : The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis /
The Uses of Charity : The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis /
Peter Mandler.
- Reprint 2016
- 1 online resource (262 p.) : 2 illus.
- Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Poverty and Charity in the Nineteenth- Century Metropolis: An Introduction -- 2. “Total Institutions” and the Survival Strategies of the Laboring Poor in Antwerp, 1770-1860 -- 3. The Survival of the Unfit: Welfare Policies and Family Maintenance in Nineteenth-Century London -- 4. Preserving the Future of France: Aid to the Poor and Pregnant in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- 5. Waifs and Strays: Child Abandonment, Foster Care, and Families in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York -- 6. Hungry Children: Housewives and London Charity, 1870-1918 -- 7. To Give and to Receive: Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility Among Jews in Paris, 1880-1914 -- 8. The History of an Impudent Poor Woman in New York City from 1918 to 1923 -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812282146 9781512804102
10.9783/9781512804102 doi
Charities--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century.
Poor--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century.
Urban poor--History--Europe--19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
HV4084
362.5/8/094091732
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Poverty and Charity in the Nineteenth- Century Metropolis: An Introduction -- 2. “Total Institutions” and the Survival Strategies of the Laboring Poor in Antwerp, 1770-1860 -- 3. The Survival of the Unfit: Welfare Policies and Family Maintenance in Nineteenth-Century London -- 4. Preserving the Future of France: Aid to the Poor and Pregnant in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- 5. Waifs and Strays: Child Abandonment, Foster Care, and Families in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York -- 6. Hungry Children: Housewives and London Charity, 1870-1918 -- 7. To Give and to Receive: Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility Among Jews in Paris, 1880-1914 -- 8. The History of an Impudent Poor Woman in New York City from 1918 to 1923 -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812282146 9781512804102
10.9783/9781512804102 doi
Charities--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century.
Poor--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century.
Urban poor--History--Europe--19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
HV4084
362.5/8/094091732