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Poor Relief and Charity, 1869-1945: The London Charity Organisation Society

By Robert Humphreys

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
0333968395, 9780333968390, 9780230503199
LCC
HV250.L8 H85 2001
Open Library ID
OL22464549M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
563 kB (576985 bytes)
Pages
244\243
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organisation Society. The Charity Organisation Society continues to be used as an institutional model of 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 the Organisation was 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.

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