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Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920 (Women in American History)
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Excerpt - from Front Matter: " ... not means-test their applicants to distinguish between worthy and unworthy poor, the great delineation thought critical to proper methods of Scientific Charity. The result was a massive expansion of public ap- propriations for private charities. New York City, for example, was ex- ... "

In The Shadow Of The Poorhouse: A Social History Of Welfare In America, Tenth Anniversary Edition
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Excerpt - from Front Matter: " ... Chapter 3 focuses on the voluntary sector: antebellum private philanthropy and a post-Civil War theory, scientific charity, deployed amid the tensions of Gilded Age America to justify newly hardened policies toward the poor. Chapter 4 returns to ... "

Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work
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Excerpt - from Front Matter: " ... blood, and ink-and the greatest of these is ink." -Blake (1947) The scientific charity organization movement in the later years of the nineteenth century was pivotal in reshaping benevolent practices in the United States. ... "

Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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Excerpt - from Front Matter: " ... and maintain close records of their dispensations: two basic precepts of "scientific" charity that the Cincinnati operation had opted to ignore. Small and self-contained as a dispute over soup kitchens may seem, ... "

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