In the Web of Class : : Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s / / Eric C. Schneider.
"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston.[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."-Choice"Any...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American Social Experience ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: The Web of Class
- Part I. The Creation of Private and Public Charity
- Introduction
- 1. Moral Entrepreneurs and the Invention of the Reformable Child
- 2. Public Welfare and the Public Reformatory
- Part 2. Domestic Reform
- Introduction
- 3. Private Alternatives to the Asylum
- 4. Domestic Reform and the Delinquent Girl
- 5. Domestic Reform and the State Reform School for Boys
- Part 3. The Organization of Welfare
- Introduction
- 6. Catholic Welfare: Between Separatism and Accommodation
- 7. The Charity Network
- Part 4. Expertise and Scientific Reform
- Introduction
- 8. The Juvenile Court: Triumph of Progressivism
- 9. Child Guidance and the Court
- Conclusion: The Failure of Cultural Reform
- Notes
- Index