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Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s
through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive
governments tried to address growing concerns about urban
deprivation across Britain. It provides unique insights into policy
and governance and into the socio-economic and cultural causes and
consequences of poverty. Starting with the impact of redevelopment
policies, immigration and the rise of the 'inner city', this book
examines the pressures and challenges that explain the development
of policy by successive Labour and Conservative governments. It
looks at the effectiveness and limits of different community
development approaches and at the inadequacies of policy in
tackling urban deprivation. In doing so, the book highlights the
restricted impact of pilot projects and reform of public services
in resolving deprivation as well as the broader limits of social
planning and state welfare. Crucially, it also plots the shift in
policy from an emphasis on achieving statutory service efficiencies
and rolling out social development programmes towards an
ever-greater stress on regeneration and support for private capital
as the solution to transforming the inner city.
The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has
received increasing scholarly attention in recent years.
Nevertheless, whilst there have been a number of valuable
contributions looking at issues such as charity as a key welfare
provider, charity and medicine, and charity and power in the
community, there has been no book length exploration of the role
and position of the recipient. By focusing on the recipients of
charity, rather than the donors or institutions, this volume
tackles searching questions of social control and cohesion, and the
relationship between providers and recipients in a new and
revealing manner. It is shown how these issues changed over the
course of the nineteenth century, as the frontier between the state
and the voluntary sector shifted away from charity towards greater
reliance on public finance, workers' contributions, and mutual aid.
In turn, these new sources of assistance enriched civil society,
encouraging democratization, empowerment and social inclusion for
previously marginalized members of the community. The book opens
with an introduction that locates medicine, charity and mutual aid
within their broad historiographical and urban contexts. Twelve
archive-based, inter-related chapters follow. Their main
chronological focus is the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, which witnessed such momentous changes in the attitudes
to, and allocation of, charity and poor relief. However, individual
chapters on the early modern period, the eighteenth century and the
aftermath of the Second World War provide illuminating context and
help ensure that the volume provides a systematic overview of the
subject that will be of interest to social, urban, and medical
historians.
Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s
through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive
governments tried to address growing concerns about urban
deprivation across Britain. It provides unique insights into policy
and governance and into the socio-economic and cultural causes and
consequences of poverty. Starting with the impact of redevelopment
policies, immigration and the rise of the 'inner city', this book
examines the pressures and challenges that explain the development
of policy by successive Labour and Conservative governments. It
looks at the effectiveness and limits of different community
development approaches and at the inadequacies of policy in
tackling urban deprivation. In doing so, the book highlights the
restricted impact of pilot projects and reform of public services
in resolving deprivation as well as the broader limits of social
planning and state welfare. Crucially, it also plots the shift in
policy from an emphasis on achieving statutory service efficiencies
and rolling out social development programmes towards an
ever-greater stress on regeneration and support for private capital
as the solution to transforming the inner city.
The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has
received increasing scholarly attention in recent years.
Nevertheless, whilst there have been a number of valuable
contributions looking at issues such as charity as a key welfare
provider, charity and medicine, and charity and power in the
community, there has been no book length exploration of the role
and position of the recipient. By focusing on the recipients of
charity, rather than the donors or institutions, this volume
tackles searching questions of social control and cohesion, and the
relationship between providers and recipients in a new and
revealing manner. It is shown how these issues changed over the
course of the nineteenth century, as the frontier between the state
and the voluntary sector shifted away from charity towards greater
reliance on public finance, workers' contributions, and mutual aid.
In turn, these new sources of assistance enriched civil society,
encouraging democratization, empowerment and social inclusion for
previously marginalized members of the community. The book opens
with an introduction that locates medicine, charity and mutual aid
within their broad historiographical and urban contexts. Twelve
archive-based, inter-related chapters follow. Their main
chronological focus is the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, which witnessed such momentous changes in the attitudes
to, and allocation of, charity and poor relief. However, individual
chapters on the early modern period, the eighteenth century and the
aftermath of the Second World War provide illuminating context and
help ensure that the volume provides a systematic overview of the
subject that will be of interest to social, urban, and medical
historians.
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