Annual Report and Proceedings at the Annual Meeting ... Wakefield, January 12th, 1876
Title | Annual Report and Proceedings at the Annual Meeting ... Wakefield, January 12th, 1876 PDF eBook |
Author | West Riding Chamber of Agriculture |
Publisher | |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 1876 |
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Reports and Statements Made at the Annual Meeting, January 12th, 1876
Title | Reports and Statements Made at the Annual Meeting, January 12th, 1876 PDF eBook |
Author | Bridgeport (Conn.). Board of Trade |
Publisher | |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Bridgeport (Conn.) |
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Journal of the Proceedings of ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Kansas ...
Title | Journal of the Proceedings of ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Kansas ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 958 |
Release | 1871 |
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Journal of the Proceedings of ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Kansas ...
Title | Journal of the Proceedings of ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Kansas ... PDF eBook |
Author | Episcopal Church. Diocese of Kansas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1875 |
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Title | Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue PDF eBook |
Author | State Library of Massachusetts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1206 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Annual Meeting
Title | Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Annual Meeting PDF eBook |
Author | New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | New England |
ISBN |
Building the Invisible Orphanage
Title | Building the Invisible Orphanage PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew A. CRENSON |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674029992 |
In 1996, America abolished its long-standing welfare system in favor of a new and largely untried public assistance program. Welfare as we knew it arose in turn from a previous generation's rejection of an even earlier system of aid. That generation introduced welfare in order to eliminate orphanages. This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management. New arrangements for child welfare policy emerged gradually as superintendents, visiting agents, and charity officials responded to the difficulties that they encountered in running orphanages or creating systems that served as alternatives to institutional care. Crenson also follows the decades-long debate about the relative merits of family care or institutional care for dependent children. Leaving poor children at home with their mothers emerged as the most generally acceptable alternative to the orphanage, along with an ambitious new conception of social reform. Instead of sheltering vulnerable children in institutions designed to transform them into virtuous citizens, the reformers of the Progressive era tried to integrate poor children into the larger society, while protecting them from its perils.