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The Uses of Charity : The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis / Peter Mandler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1990Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (262 p.) : 2 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812282146
  • 9781512804102
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5/8/094091732 20
LOC classification:
  • HV4084
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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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

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In English.

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