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This Business of Relief - Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 (Hardcover)
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This Business of Relief - Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 (Hardcover)
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The South has been largely overlooked in the debates prompted by
the wave of welfare reforms during the 1990s. This book helps
correct that imbalance. Using Richmond, Virginia, as an example,
Elna C. Green looks at issues and trends related to two centuries
of relief for the needy and dependent in the urban South.
Throughout, she links her findings to the larger narrative of
welfare history in the United States. She ties social-welfare
policy in the South to other southern histories, showing how each
period left its own mark on policies and their implementation -
from colonial poor laws to homes for children orphaned in the Civil
War to the New Deal's public works projects. Green also covers the
South's ongoing urbanization and industrialization, the selective
application of social services along racial and gender lines,
debates over the ""deserving"" and ""undeserving"" poor, the
professionalization of social work, and the lasting effects of New
Deal money and regulations on the region. This groundbreaking study
sheds light on a variety of key public and private welfare
issues--in history and in the present, and in terms of welfare
recipients and providers.
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