Author: | Matthew A. Crenson |
Subcategory: | Humanities |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press (March 16, 2001) |
Pages: | 400 pages |
Category: | Other |
Rating: | 4.9 |
Other formats: | lrf lit mbr doc |
This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management.
This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. New arrangements for child welfare policy emerged gradually as superintendents, visiting agents, and charity officials responded to the difficulties that they encountered in running orphanages or creating systems that served as alternatives to institutional care. New arrangements for child welfare policy emerged gradually as superintendents.
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This book raises a number of interesting questions about the connections between nineteenth and twentieth century child welfare practices. Matthew Crenson, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, makes the case that ADC, which he sees as the "invisible orphanage," replaced the bricks and mortar orphanages as the prevalent form of caring for needy children.
Building the Invisible Orphanage. A Prehistory of the American Welfare System This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. A Prehistory of the American Welfare System. In 1996, America abolished its long-standing welfare system in favor of a new and largely untried public assistance program. This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare.
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Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or.
Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management. Crenson also follows the decades-long debate about the relative merits of family care or institutional care for dependent children.
Visible and Invisible Orphanages Crenson’s compares the child welfare systems estab-lished in four states New .
Visible and Invisible Orphanages. This book raises a number of interesting questions about the connections between nineteenth and twentieth century child welfare practices. Crenson’s compares the child welfare systems estab-lished in four states New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Minnesota to deal with increasing numbers of needy chil-dren.
In 1996, America abolished its long-standing welfare system in favor of a new and largely untried public assistance program. Welfare as we knew it arose in turn from a previous generation's rejection of an even earlier system of aid. That generation introduced welfare in order to eliminate orphanages.
This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management. New arrangements for child welfare policy emerged gradually as superintendents, visiting agents, and charity officials responded to the difficulties that they encountered in running orphanages or creating systems that served as alternatives to institutional care.
Crenson also follows the decades-long debate about the relative merits of family care or institutional care for dependent children. Leaving poor children at home with their mothers emerged as the most generally acceptable alternative to the orphanage, along with an ambitious new conception of social reform. Instead of sheltering vulnerable children in institutions designed to transform them into virtuous citizens, the reformers of the Progressive era tried to integrate poor children into the larger society, while protecting them from its perils.