Title: Unsentimental reformer
Subtitle: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell
First published: 1997
Description: Such was the massive and pitiless industrialization of the nation after the Civil War that Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843-1905) recoiled and sought a new way to approach poverty. She rationalized charity toward hapless families and children in ways that established social responsibility for the welfare of the poor.

A Brahmin, member of an illustrious family, sister of the martyred Robert Gould Shaw, who led his proud black troops against Fort Wagner, and, later, a war widow, Lowell constantly responded to changing ideological and economic conditions affecting the poor.

This book challenges all previous interpretations of Lowell as a "genteel" reformer mostly interested in social control of the underclass. Rather, her aim was to cure pauperism, and her strategies eventually led her to support higher wages and full employment.
Subjects: Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, Biography, Women philanthropists, Women social reformers, History, Lowell, josephine shaw, 1843-1905, Philanthropists, New york (state), biography, Sociale hervormingen, Liefdadigheid, Biographie, Armoede
Places: New York (State)
People: Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843-1905), Josephine Shaw Lowell
LC classification: HV28.L66 W38 1997