Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell

By Joan Waugh

If the poor are always with us, how we have perceived and treated them has changed like the seasons. Such was the massive and pitiless industrialization of the nation after the Civil War that Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843-1905) recoiled and sought a new way to approach poverty. She rationalized charity toward hapless families and children in ways that established social responsibility for the welfare of the poor. This introduction of scientific methods in social work bridged two great eras of social reform, creating a civic maternalism only denied in law in 1996.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674930363
• ISBN13: 9780674930360
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"