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Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945

The London Charity Organisation Society

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Robert Humphreys

    1. Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Beginnings of the London Charity Organization Society

    • Robert Humphreys
    Pages 1-22

  3. The First Five Years

    • Robert Humphreys
    Pages 23-59

  4. Developments by the Turn of the Century

    • Robert Humphreys
    Pages 60-95

  5. 1900 Onwards — a Half-Century of Change and General COS Decline

    • Robert Humphreys
    Pages 96-132

  6. Charity Organization outside London

    • Robert Humphreys
    Pages 133-160

  7. Reasons for COS Decline

    • Robert Humphreys
    Pages 161-189

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 190-228
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Robert Humphreys

About the author

ROBERT HUMPHREYS is a Lecturer in Economic History at the London School of Economics. He is author of Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England and No Fixed Abode: A History of Responses to the Roofless and the Rootless in Britain.

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