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The blind in British society : charity, state and community, c.1780-1930 / Gordon Phillips.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Phillips, G. A. (Gordon Ashton), 1942-
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Blind--Institutional care--Great Britain--History.; Blind.; Blind--Services for--Great Britain--History.; Blind--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain.; Blind--Legal status, laws, etc.; Blind--Services for.; History.; Blind--Institutional care.; Great Britain.
Physical Description:: ix, 438 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
Contents:: Introduction; The advent of institutions; The early blind asylums; Blind institutions and the ideas of the enlightenment; The intellectual context of blind charity; The provenance of the blind institution; Policy and practice in the early years of the institution; Conclusion; The consolidation of institutions, c.1800-1860; The spread of institutions; Institutions and their critics in the 1830s; The widening of institutional activity, 1830-50; The early history of printing in relief; The problem of employment; Institutions, discipline and incentives; The experience of institutional life; Charity and the outdoor blind, c.1850-1875; The blind in the census of 1851; The General Welfare Association and the first blind workshops; William Moon and the home visiting societies; Blind schools and adult labour; The public critique of asylums; Paupers and pensioners; The blind under the Poor Law, c.1834-1914; The question of Poor Law reform; The development of blind pensions; Pensioners, charity and the state; The state and blind education, 1870-1906; Blind children at common schools; The first phase of inquiry : the Charity Organization Society, 1876; The British and Foreign Blind Association and the reform of asylums; The Royal Normal College and the Gardner Trust; Reform and innovation in blind schools; School boards and the royal commission; The impact of legislation; The right to work, 1889-1914; Home work and the Saxon system; Blind workshops : profits and losses; The General Welfare Association, 1880-1914; Reformers and conservatives in workshop management; The national league of the blind; The campaign for blind aid legislation, 1906-14; The experience of social change; The blind population in the nineteenth century; The economic hierarchy of the eighteenth-century blind; The profile of blind employment, c.1880-1914; The experience of work; The nationalisation of charity, 1900-1920; The administration of charity and the national perspective; The co-ordination of charity : the county unions and the National Institute; The Blind Persons' Act : prelude; The Blind Persons' Act : construction; The impact of legislation : pensions and registration; The impact of legislation : voluntary services under public authority; Epilogue.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages [420]-431) and index.
ISBN:: 075465012X
OCLC:: 54528884

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