This business of relief
Subtitle: confronting poverty in a Southern city, 1740-1940
By: Elna C. Green.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Public welfare -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History.; Charities -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History.; Poverty -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History.; Richmond (Va.) -- Social policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial origins : the Elizabethan poor laws in Virginia; title: Poor relief in early Richmond : the poor- and workhouse; title: Antebellum Richmond : from poorhouse to almshouse; title: The Civil War : redefining the "worthy" poor; title: Reconstruction : the contest over poor relief; title: The new South, part I : scientific charity and Confederate commemoration; title: The new South, part II : progressivism and the welfare state through the 1920s; title: On the margins : the lives of the poor; title: The end of the poor laws : the New Deal and social welfare.