Main entry:

Mohl, Raymond A.

Title & Author:

Poverty in New York, 1783-1825 [by] Raymond A. Mohl.

Publication:

New York, Oxford University Press, 1971.

Description:

xv, 318 pages maps 22 cm.

Series:

The Urban life in America series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
New York in transition -- Poverty in the urban community -- English heritage and colonial background -- State poor laws, 1783-1825 -- The municipal welfare structure -- The urban welfare program: the almshouse -- The urban welfare program: outdoor relief -- The Humane Society and urban reform -- The proliferation of urban philanthropy -- The humanitarian rationale: from benevolence to moralism -- Education -- Religion -- Temperance -- Work -- The Society for the Prevention of Pauperism -- Social welfare and humanitarianism in urban America.

Summary:

"From colonial times on, most immigrants arrived poor and stayed poor, although their families might advance substantially over several generations. In this new work Professor Mohl takes a look at New York immediately after the revolution, when the city was struggling with heavy immigration, rapid urbanization, and the beginning of industrialism ... Pauperism, in this transitional era, was almost endemic, and the city's attempts to deal with it then were embryonic of today's methods ... From a variety of original sources--almshouse records, newspaper accounts, state and local poor laws, and the minutes of philanthropic organizations--the author is able to bring into view, in very humane terms, the underside of existence in preindustrial New York."--Publisher.

ISBN:

0195013670
9780195013672

Subject:

Poor New York (State) New York History.
Social service New York (State) New York History.
Poverty New York (State) New York History.
Poverty history
Social Welfare history
Pauvreté New York (État) New York Histoire.
Service social New York (État) New York Histoire.
Pauvres New York (État) New York Histoire.
Poverty
Poor
Social service
African Americans New York (State) New York
New York (N.Y.) Poor History.
New York (State) New York
Medical Humanities.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Urban life in America series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72767
Call No.: ID:86-B12096
Status: Available