Titlebook: Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England; Robert Humphreys Book 1995 Robert Humphreys 1995 bibliography.Britain.crusad

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e 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.978-1-349-39434-0978-0-230-37543-7

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The Poor Law Crusade against Outdoor Relief,predicated on the strategy that the COS would organize voluntary disbursements while the state crusaded against Poor Law outdoor relief. The government plan had only become feasible following a prolonged process of social and legislative change started in 1834 and continuing into the late 1860s. Thi

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The Provincial Crusade: Results and Reactions, LGB crusade or where such strictures might reasonably have been expected because of the establishment of a nearby Charity Organisation Society. When viewed in the context of the national pattern and accepting the law of averages, other unions must have been unusually lenient in dispensing out-relie

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,The Activities of Provincial Charity Organisation Societies, 1870–1890,discusses which personal characteristics were believed to make the poor deserving of help. Discussion then exposes the misleading implications of COS ridicule about what they persistently claimed were the unfair inadequacies of Poor Law doles as a means by which the poor might attain respectability.

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Book 1995tionalised 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

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Ideological Change in Late Victorian Britain: The Response of Provincial Charity Organisation SocieWith the evidence of previous chapters about the inability of provincial COSs to create change in the pattern of Victorian charitable disbursements this chapter discusses COS failures and provides explanations as to why their members clung so resolutely to their early ideals in spite of growing isolation from their social peers.