Hard and unreal advice : mothers, social science and the Victorian poverty experts / Kathleen Callan...
Hard and unreal advice : mothers, social science and the Victorian poverty experts / Kathleen Callan...
Hard and unreal advice : mothers, social science and the Victorian poverty experts / Kathleen Callanan Martin.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.
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N362.50941/15
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ix, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
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Prologue: Victorian Social Science in a Twentieth-Century World -- 1. Introduction to Victorian Poverty Studies -- 2. Two Royal Commissions -- 3. Protestant Paradigms in Victorian Poverty Studies -- Temptation, transcendence, denial: religious threads in late nineteenth-century poverty studies -- 4....
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.
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England
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c2008.
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"This is the story of a set of ideas that, in Britain and the United States, have dominated public opinion and public policy on the subject of poverty for nearly two centuries. From the beginnings of social science in Britain, these ideas have shaped the methods of poverty researchers. Some of these researchers' names are well known: Charles Booth,...
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Hard and unreal advice : mothers, social science and the Victorian poverty experts / Kathleen Callanan Martin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N362.50941/15
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74VMQXqN5jaZ
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9780230201897 (hbk.) :
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362.5094109034
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