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Sin, organized charity, and the poor law in Victorian England by Robert Humphreys (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sin, organized charity, and the poor law in Victorian England about?
This book challenges widely-held beliefs about the efficacy of the Charity Organization Society and its alleged epitome of the Victorian values of family, morality, character and thrift. The received impression of a powerful, respected, national network of provincial Charity Organization Societies each organizing poor relief in their locality is shown to be illusory. Now that the blatant failure of the Charity Organization Society to satisfy their own guidelines on poor relief has been exposed w
Who reads Sin, organized charity, and the poor law in Victorian England?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert Humphreys (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349394340
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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