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This business of relief : confronting poverty in a Southern city, 1740-1940 / Elna C. Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Elna C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--Virginia--Richmond--History.
- Public welfare.
- Charities--Virginia--Richmond--History.
- Charities.
- Poverty--Virginia--Richmond--History.
- Poverty.
- History.
- Richmond (Va.)--Social policy.
- Richmond (Va.).
- Virginia--Richmond.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking study of social-welfare policy in the urban South.
- Contents:
- Colonial origins : the Elizabethan poor laws in Virginia
- Poor relief in early Richmond : the poor- and workhouse
- Antebellum Richmond : from poorhouse to almshouse
- The Civil War : redefining the "worthy" poor
- Reconstruction : the contest over poor relief
- The new South, part I : scientific charity and Confederate commemoration
- The new South, part II : progressivism and the welfare state through the 1920s
- On the margins : the lives of the poor
- The end of the poor laws : the New Deal and social welfare.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820324515
- 082032552X
- OCLC:
- 52153631
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