LEADER 03698nam 22005894 450 001 9910786787203321 005 20140801105808.0 010 $a0-8223-9642-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822396420 035 $a(CKB)3710000000202044 035 $a(OCoLC)891395176 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10901890 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001467502 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11890268 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001467502 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11516033 035 $a(PQKB)10578751 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007898 035 $a(OCoLC)1139355929 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79120 035 $a884991817 035 $a(DE-B1597)552771 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822396420 035 $a(OCoLC)972007732 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000202044 100 $a20140731d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContaining the poor $ethe Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871 /$fSilvia Marina Arrom 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (415 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2561-6 311 $a0-8223-2527-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [365]-383) and index. 327 $aThe problem of beggars and vagrants, 1774-1871 -- The foundation of the poor house -- The experiment in practice, 1774-1805 -- Reform of the poor house, 1806-1811 -- Independence and decline, 1811-1823 -- Republican difficulties, 1824-1855 -- La reforma, reorganization, and crisis, 1856-1863 -- Recovery during the second empire, 1863-1867 -- The liberals return, 1867-1871. 330 $aIn 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House?the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, showing how the asylum functioned primarily to educate white orphans instead of suppressing mendicancy and exerting control over the multiracial community for whom it was designed.For a nation that had traditionally regarded the needy as having the undisputed right to receive alms and whose affluent citizens felt duty-bound to dispense them, the experiment was doomed from the start, explains Arrom. She uses deep archival research to reveal that?much to policymakers? dismay?the Poor House became an orphanage largely because the government had underestimated the embeddedness of this moral economy of begging. While tracing the course of an eventful century that also saw colonialism give way to republicanism in Mexico, Arrom links the Poor House?s transformation with other societal factors as well, such as Mexican women?s increasing impact on social welfare policies.With poverty, begging, and homelessness still rampant in much of Latin America today, this study of changing approaches to social welfare will be particularly valuable to student and scholars of Mexican and Latin American society and history, as well as those engaged in the study of social and welfare policy. 606 $aAlmshouses$zMexico$zMexico City$xHistory 607 $aMexico City (Mexico)$xSocial policy 607 $aMexico City (Mexico)$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aAlmshouses$xHistory. 676 $a362.5/85/097253 700 $aArrom$b Silvia Marina$f1949-$01231905 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786787203321 996 $aContaining the poor$93840455 997 $aUNINA