Habits of compassion
Subtitle: Irish-Catholic nuns and the origins of New York's welfare system, 1830-1920
By: Maureen Fitzgerald.
Series: Women in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780252030345; 9780252072826
Subjects: Public welfare -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History.; Public welfare -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.; Nuns -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.; Irish-American Catholics -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Republican mothers and brides of Christ; title: Good girls, bad girls, and the Great Hunger, 1845-70; title: Placing-out and Irish-Catholic cultural reproduction, 1848-64; title: Saving the children from the child-savers, 1864-94; title: "The family" and "the institution" : the roads to the White House, 1890-1909; title: The immaculate conception of the welfare state, 1895-1920.