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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453512203321

Autore

Simey M. B (Margaret B.)

Titolo

From rhetoric to reality [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the work of Frederick D'Aeth, social administrator / / Margaret Simey ; edited by David Bingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-84631-315-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

361.92

Soggetti

Philanthropists - England - Liverpool

Social workers - England - Liverpool

Social service - England - Liverpool - History - 20th century

Human services - England - Liverpool - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why Bother?; 1: Origins of a Dilemma; 2: The Urban Ideal; 3: The Theory of Social Responsibility (1905-1909); 4: The Health of the Body Corporate; 5: The Craft of the Social Administrator (1911-1914); 6: The Practice of Social Administration (1914-1918); 7: The End of the Beginning (1919-1924); 8: The Birth of a New Philanthropy; 9: The New Philanthropy Vindicated (1923-1934); Conclusion: From Rhetoric to Reality; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This book tells the personal and political story of a previously uncelebrated man, whose interests and gifts contributed greatly to the transformation of social welfare in Britain in the early part of the twentieth century. In 1905 Frederic D'Aeth, a disillusioned clergyman, came to Liverpool as the first paid lecturer in the newly formed School for Social Work Training, and went on to become the Director of Reports for the Liverpool Council for Voluntary Aid. Margaret Simey shows how, in this capacity, D'Aeth achieved the near impossible task of co-ordinating the welter of diverse charitable