Compassion and Responsibility

by Breul, Frank R.; Diner, Steven J.

• ISBN13: 9780226074139
• ISBN10: 0226074137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This volume brings together for social welfare and history students a group of scholarly articles on the history of American social welfare policy.

Table of Contents

Preface

General Concepts in Social Welfare History

Introduction

Compassion and Protection: Dual Motivations in Social Welfare

Social Service and Social Reform: A Historical Essay

Social Welfare in Colonial Times and the Early National Period

Introduction

The Development of Poor Relief in Colonial Virginia

The Puritan Background of the New England Poor Laws

The Patchwork of Relief in Provincial New York, 1664-1775

Poor Relief in a Massachusetts Village in the Eighteenth Century

Poverty and Its Relief in American Thought, 1815-61

The "Benevolent Fair": A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century

The Early Days of the Magdalen Society of Philadelphia

The Federal Government and Social Welfare in Early Nineteenth-Century America

The Tragedy of the Ten-Million-Acre Bill

Late Nineteenth-Century Reform and Early Twentieth-century Social Welfare Progress

Introduction

Public Welfare in the South during the Reconstruction Era, 1865-80

"Scientific Philanthropy," 1873-93

Raymond Robins: The Settlement Worker as Municipal Reformer

Social Settlements and Immigrant Neighbors, 1886-1914

Chicago Social Workers and Blacks in the Progressive Era

Consensus for Reform: The Mothers'-Pension Movement in the Progressive Era

Prelude to Welfare Capitalism: The Role of Business in the Enactment of Workmen's Compensation

Legislation in Illinois, 1905-12

Isaac Max Rubinow: Pioneering Specialist in Social Insurance

Women and the Anti-Child Labor Movement in Illinois, 1890-1920

The Chicago Playground Movement: A Neglected Feature of Social Justice

Contributors

Appendix

Index

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