Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England

by Humphreys Glyn, Robert Humphreys, Glyn Humphreys

Book Overview

Politicians, social administrators, economists, biographers and historians have shared the belief that the Charity Organisation Society effectively rationalised relief to the Victorian poor and illustrated the advantages of caring voluntarism over impersonal state handouts. It is now clear that in provincial England these impressions were illusory. The alleged sinful profligacy of other charitable bodies was persistently condemned by the Charity Organisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333633792
• ISBN13: 9780333633793
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"