03101nam 2200661 a 450 991045268930332120200520144314.01-283-85151-20-253-00638-4(CKB)2550000000707341(EBL)784506(OCoLC)822889991(SSID)ssj0000786922(PQKBManifestationID)11503703(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786922(PQKBWorkID)10821777(PQKB)11416676(MiAaPQ)EBC784506(OCoLC)843777439(MdBmJHUP)muse17199(Au-PeEL)EBL784506(CaPaEBR)ebr10631193(CaONFJC)MIL416401(EXLCZ)99255000000070734120120726d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAlmost worthy[electronic resource] the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 /Brent RuswickBloomington Indiana University Pressc20131 online resource (284 p.)Philanthropic and nonprofit studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00634-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity -- "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace -- Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor -- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism -- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement -- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.In the 1880's, social reform leaders warned that the ""unworthy"" poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with statistics and confused notions of evolution, these ""scientific charity"" reformers founded organizations intent on limiting access to relief by the most morally, biologically, and economically unfit. Brent Ruswick examines a prominent national organization for scientific social reform and poor relief in Indianapolis in order to understand how these new theories of poverty gave birth to new programs to assist the poor.Philanthropic and Nonprofit StudiesPoorServices forUnited StatesHistoryCharitiesUnited StatesHistoryNature and nurtureUnited StatesHistoryPovertyUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.PoorServices forHistory.CharitiesHistory.Nature and nurtureHistory.PovertyHistory.362.5/57632097309034Ruswick Brent876731MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452689303321Almost worthy1957627UNINA