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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2022.

1 online resource (468 pages)

ISBN 9780253059116 (electronic bk.)

ISBN !9780253059093 (chyb.)

Print version: Greeley, Dawn M. Beyond Benevolence Bloomington : Indiana University Press,c2022 ISBN 9780253059093

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Not Alms but a Friend": The Moral Economy of Scientific Charity -- 2. Organizing Charity in the City of Strangers: The New York COS -- 3. Neither Alms nor a Friend: Organizational Obstacles to the Practice of Scientific Charity -- 4. "Hoping for Your Kind Interest": Donors, Clients, and the Uses of Scientific Charity -- 5. "I Beg to Call Your Attention to a Very Deserving Case": Entitlement, Respectability, and the Politics of Charity in Working-Class Communities -- 6. If Not a Friend, Then Alms: Relief and Reform in the Progressive Era -- 7. The COS and the State: Widows, Deserted Wives, and the Battle over Mothers’ Pensions -- 8. From Friendly Visiting to Social Casework: The Triumph of Professionalism -- Conclusion: The New York COS and the Transformation of American Social Welfare -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Meticulously researched and uniquely focused on the day-to-day practice of scientific charity as much as its theory, Beyond Benevolence offers a powerful glimpse into how the trajectory of one charitable organization reflected a nation’s momentous social, economic, and political upheavals as it moved into the 20th century..

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