TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waugh,Joan
TI  - Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell 
SN  - 9780674437494
U1  - B 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Armoede
KW  - Biographie
KW  - Liefdadigheid
KW  - Sociale hervormingen
KW  - Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
KW  - Women philanthropists
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Charity Organization Society of the City of New York -- History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905
KW  - Women philanthropists -- New York (State) -- Biography
KW  - Women social reformers -- New York (State) -- Biography
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Beginnings --; 2. First Heroes --; 3. Lights and Shadows --; 4. Charity Is Our Science --; 5. The Commissioner --; 6. Charity Organization --; 7. The Labor Question --; 8. The Useful Citizen --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - If the poor are always with us, how we have perceived and treated them has changed like the seasons. Such was the massive and pitiless industrialization of the nation after the Civil War that Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843-1905) recoiled and sought a new way to approach poverty. She rationalized charity toward hapless families and children in ways that established social responsibility for the welfare of the poor. This introduction of "scientific" methods in social work bridged two great eras of social reform, creating a civic maternalism only denied in law in 1996. A Brahmin, member of an illustrious family, sister of the martyred Robert Gould Shaw, who led his proud black troops against Fort Wagner, and, later, a war widow, Lowell constantly responded to changing ideological and economic conditions affecting the poor. From an emphasis on the regeneration of the individual, she soon showed an appreciation of the importance of social conditions. This book challenges all previous interpretations of Lowell as a "genteel" reformer mostly interested in social control of the underclass. Rather, her aim was to cure pauperism, and her strategies eventually led her to support higher wages and full employment
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674437487
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