Hard and Unreal Advice : Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts / by K. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Kathleen Callanan, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Welfare state.

Social history.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Social service.

History, Modern.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Welfare.

Social History.

Cultural History.

Social Care.

Modern History.

Local Subjects:

History of Britain and Ireland.

Welfare.

Social History.

Cultural History.

Social Care.

Modern History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Prologue: Victorian Social Science in a Twentieth-Century World; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction to Victorian Poverty Studies; 2 Two Royal Commissions; 3 Protestant Paradigms in Victorian Poverty Studies; 4 Political Economy and the New Poor Law; 5 From Political Economy to Social Science; 6 Ignoble Savages on Relief: Social Darwinism in Late Victorian Poverty Studies; 7 Science and Pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian Poverty Studies; 8 Three Case Studies in a priori Social Science; 9 Unanswered Questions, Unasked Questions, and an Experimental Counter-Hypothesis

10 Why Critique the Victorian Social Science of Poverty?Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-223) and index.

ISBN:

9786611976385

9781281976383

1281976385

9780230594050

0230594050

OCLC:

314773653