The Uses of Charity : : The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis / / Peter Mandler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Mandler, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.) :; 2 illus.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Poverty and Charity in the Nineteenth- Century Metropolis: An Introduction
• 2. “Total Institutions” and the Survival Strategies of the Laboring Poor in Antwerp, 1770-1860
• 3. The Survival of the Unfit: Welfare Policies and Family Maintenance in Nineteenth-Century London
• 4. Preserving the Future of France: Aid to the Poor and Pregnant in Nineteenth-Century Paris
• 5. Waifs and Strays: Child Abandonment, Foster Care, and Families in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
• 6. Hungry Children: Housewives and London Charity, 1870-1918
• 7. To Give and to Receive: Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility Among Jews in Paris, 1880-1914
• 8. The History of an Impudent Poor Woman in New York City from 1918 to 1923
• Contributors
• Index