Before the New Deal : social welfare in the South, 1830-1930 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Green, Elna C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, [1999]
Subjects:	Public welfare > Southern States > History. Social service > Southern States > History. People with social disabilities > Services for > Southern States > History. Southern States > Social policy > History.

Table of Contents:

Laissez faire and the lunatic asylum: state welfare institutions in Georgia, the first half-century, 1830s-1880s / Peter Wallenstein
Confederate pensions as Southern social welfare / Kathleen Gorman
Regulating the poor in Alabama: the Jefferson County poor farm, 1885-1945 / James H. Tuten
We take care of our womenfolk: The Home for Needy Confederate Women in Richmond, Virginia, 1898-1990 / Susan Hamburger
National trends, regional differences, local circumstances: social welfare in New Orleans, 1870s-1920s / Elna C. Green
Are you or are you not your sister's keeper?: a radical response to the treatment of unwed mothers in Tennessee / Mazie Hough
Anxious care and constant struggle: the Female Humane Association and Richmond's white Civil War orphans / E. Susan Barber
I certainly hope that you will be able to train her: reformers and the Georgia Training School for Girls / Lee S. Polansky
The colors of social welfare in the New South: Black and White clubwomen in South Carolina, 1900-1930 / Joan Marie Johnson
Disease, disorder, and motherhood: working-class women, social welfare, and the process of urban development in Atlanta / Georgina Hickey.