| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
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Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity -- "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace -- Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor -- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism -- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement -- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poor -- Services for -- United States -- History.
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Poor -- Services for. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Charities -- United States -- History.
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Charities. |
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Nature and nurture -- United States -- History.
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Nature and nurture. |
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Poverty -- United States -- History.
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Poverty. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ruswick, Brent. Almost worthy. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013 9780253006349 (DLC) 2012026049 (OCoLC)756596903 |
| ISBN |
9780253006387 electronic book |
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0253006384 electronic book |
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0253006341 |
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9780253006349 |
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9781283851510 MyiLibrary |
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1283851512 MyiLibrary |
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