Before the New Deal : social welfare in the South, 1830-1930 / edited by Elna C. Green.

Other author Green, Elna C.
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens, GA : University of Georgia Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxxvi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98039166
ISBN0820320919 (alk. paper)
ISBN0820321141 (pbk. : alk. paper)