Occasional Papers

Occasional Papers
Author: Family Welfare Association (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1900
Genre:
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Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945

Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945
Author: R. Humphreys
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2001-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403919518

This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organization Society. Politicians, social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and historians have been swayed by the strength of their propaganda. The Charity Organization Society continues to be used as an institutional model to illustrate the alleged advantages of voluntarism over state benefits. Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945 exposes the misleading nature of many of its claims. It explains why they were shunned by other charities, treated with suspicion by parish clergy, disregarded by poor law guardians and seen as little different from the stigmatized poor law by those in need.