Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England
Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England

Author: R. Humphreys

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1995-07-17

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 023037543X

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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 Society for fostering latant sin amongst the poor. By exposing how they failed in practice to satisfy their own prescriptions for appropriate poor relief this volume asks whether the Charity Organisation Society were themselves morally equipped to castigate others about sin.

Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898
Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898

Author: Keir Waddington

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780861932467

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"Drawing on a comparative study of hospital records, Charity and the London Hospitals investigates how and why Victorians contributed in order to show that benevolence was rarely amenable to a single form or reason. Whilst charity remained central to the hospitals' raison d'etre, philanthropy's contribution was modified at a financial and administrative level as hospitals shifted from being philanthropic to medical institutions. Why this process occurred and the impact of professionalisation and scientific medicine are assessed."--BOOK JACKET.

Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945
Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945

Author: R. Humphreys

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-10-31

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1403919518

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This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organization Society. Politicians, social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and historians have been swayed by the strength of their propaganda. The Charity Organization Society continues to be used as an institutional model to illustrate the alleged advantages of voluntarism over state benefits. Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945 exposes the misleading nature of many of its claims. It explains why they were shunned by other charities, treated with suspicion by parish clergy, disregarded by poor law guardians and seen as little different from the stigmatized poor law by those in need.