With Us Always A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare

by Critchlow, Donald T.; Parker, Charles H.; Adams, Thomas M.; Brundage, Anthony; Carp, E Wayne; Hawley, Ellis W.; McKeown, Elizabeth; Norberg, Kathryn; O'Connor, Alice; Patterson, James T.; Pullan, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780847689705
• ISBN10: 0847689700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-02
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Charity and Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe
Poor Relief and Community in the Early Dutch Republic	p. 13
Religious Charity and Cultural Norms in Counter-Reformation France	p. 35
The Provision of Work as Assistance and Correction in France, 1534-1848	p. 55
Good Government and Christian Charity in Early Modern Italy	p. 77
Private Charity and the 1834 Poor Law	p. 99
United States Relief and Welfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Orphanages vs. Adoption: The Triumph of Biological Kinship, 1800-1933	p. 123
Claiming the Poor	p. 145
Herbert Hoover, Associationalism, and the Great Depression Relief Crisis of 1930-1933	p. 161
Neither Charity Nor Relief: The War on Poverty and the Effort to Redefine the Basis of Social Provision	p. 191
Implementing Family Planning Policy: Philanthropic Foundations and the Modern Welfare State	p. 211
"Reforming" Relief and Welfare: Thoughts on 1834 and 1996	p. 241
Index	p. 261
About the Contributors	p. 269
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