With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public WelfareDonald T. Critchlow, Charles H. Parker Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. 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. The prominent historians in this collection demonstrate how solutions to poverty are functions of culture, religion, and politics, and how social provisions for the poor have evolved across the centuries. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Charity and Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe | 11 |
Poor Relief and Community in the Early Dutch Republic | 13 |
Religious Charity and Cultural Norms in CounterReformation France | 35 |
The Provision of Work as Assistance and Correction in France 15341848 | 55 |
Good Government and Christian Charity in Early Modern Italy | 77 |
Private Charity and the 1834 Poor Law | 99 |
United States Relief and Welfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | 121 |
Claiming the Poor | 145 |
Herbert Hoover Associationalism and the Great Depression Relief Crisis of 19301933 | 161 |
The War on Poverty and the Effort to Redefine the Basis of Social Provision | 191 |
Philanthropic Foundations and the Modern Welfare State | 211 |
Thoughts on 1834 and 1996 | 241 |
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Contributors | 269 |
The Triumph of Biological Kinship 18001933 | 123 |
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References to this book
Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects, Possibilities James Frederick Hamilton Limited preview - 2008 |