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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)
by Maureen Fitzgerald
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with references to "scientific charity".
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... 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- ... "
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In The Shadow Of The Poorhouse: A Social History Of Welfare In America, Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Michael B. Katz
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with references to "scientific charity".
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... 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 ... "
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Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work
by Karen W. Tice
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with references to "scientific charity".
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... 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. ... "
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Miss Champine, Salvation Army, Boston Children's Aid Society, Miss Church, Minneapolis Family Welfare Association, Citizen's Aid Society, social case records, social work publicity, many social work leaders, sharing textual space, boarding mother, charity organization society movement
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Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Karen Sawislak
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with references to "scientific charity".
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... 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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