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024 7 _a10.4159/harvard.9780674437487
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674437487
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072 7 _aBIO022000
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082 0 4 _aB
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWaugh, Joan
_eautore
245 1 0 _aUnsentimental Reformer :
_bThe Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell /
_cJoan Waugh.
250 _aReprint 2014
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©1997
300 _a1 online resource (296 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Beginnings --
_t2. First Heroes --
_t3. Lights and Shadows --
_t4. Charity Is Our Science --
_t5. The Commissioner --
_t6. Charity Organization --
_t7. The Labor Question --
_t8. The Useful Citizen --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIf 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aArmoede.
650 0 _aBiographie.
650 0 _aLiefdadigheid.
650 0 _aSociale hervormingen.
650 0 _aSoziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen.
650 0 _aWomen philanthropists.
650 0 _aWomen social reformers.
650 4 _aCharity Organization Society of the City of New York -- History.
650 4 _aHISTORY / United States / General.
650 4 _aLowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905.
650 4 _aWomen philanthropists -- New York (State) -- Biography.
650 4 _aWomen social reformers -- New York (State) -- Biography.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674437487
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674437487
856 4 2 _3Cover
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