Almost worthy : the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917
(2012)
By:
Ruswick, Brent
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Indiana University Press, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780253006387 (electronic bk.) MWT14807009, 0253006384 (electronic bk.) 14807009
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In the 1880s, social reform leaders warned that the "unworthy" poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with statistics and confused notions of evolution, these "scientific charity" reformers founded organizations intent on limiting access to relief by the most morally, biologically, and economically unfit. Brent Ruswick examines a prominent national organization for scientific social reform and poor relief in Indianapolis in order to understand how these new theories of poverty gave birth to new programs to assist the poor
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