Poor Relief and Charity, 1869-1945 : The London Charity Organisation Society

Annotation This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organisation Society. The Charity Organisation Society continues to be used as an institutional model of 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 the Organisation was 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 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. This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organisation Society. Politicians, social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and historians have been swayed by the strength of their propaganda Robert Humphreys challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organisation Society. Social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and others have been swayed by the strength of the society's propaganda The charity organization movement emerged around 1870 from a number of similarly motivated groups and rapidly succeeded in spreading its gospel around the world. Robert Humphreys. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 210-216) And Index.