Explores the changing nature of religious charity, societal relief, and government welfare programs in early modern Europe and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. The relationships between religious motivation and private philanthropy, and the ideological battles over welfare are discussed in 11 essays which collectively stress the continuity in how European and American societies have approached the problem of the poor over the years. Arranged roughly chronologically, the essays look at such topics as workhouses in France; loans to poor artisans in Italy, the English 1834 Poor Law, and the programs of Herbert Hoover and Lyndon Johnson. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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.
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DONALD T. CRITCHLOW CHARLES H. PARKER Introduction 1(12) Charity and Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe 13(110) CHARLES H. PARKER Poor Relief and Community in the Early Dutch Republic 13(22) KATHRYN NORBERG Religious Charity and Cultural Norms in Counter-Reformation France 35(20) THOMAS M. ADAMS The Provision of Work as Assistance and Correction in France, 1534-1848 55(22) BRIAN PULLAN Good Government and Christian Charity in Early Modern Italy 77(22) ANTHONY BRUNDAGE Private Charity and the 1834 Poor Law 99(24) United States Relief and Welfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 123(138) E. WAYNE CARP Orphanages vs. Adoption: The Triumph of Biological Kinship, 1800-1933 123(22) ELIZABETH McKEOWN Claiming the Poor 145(16) ELLIS W. HAWLEY Herbert Hoover, Associationalism, and the Great Depression Relief Crisis of 1930-1933 161(30) ALICE OCONNOR Neither Charity Nor Relief: The War on Poverty and the Effort to Redefine the Basis of Social Provision 191(20) DONALD T. CRITCHLOW Implementing Family Planning Policy: Philanthropic Foundations and the Modern Welfare State 211(30) JAMES T. PATTERSON Reforming Relief and Welfare: Thoughts on 1834 and 1996 241(20) INDEX 261(8) ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 269
Donald T. Critchlow is editor of the Journal of Policy History and his books include The Brookings Institution: Expertise and Influence in a Democratic Society, Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation, and Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government. Charles H. Parker is assistant professor of history at Saint Louis University and author of The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland.
