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Hard and Unreal Advice
Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts
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The first detailed and systematicstudy of the social science of poverty aspracticed by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue: Victorian Social Science in a Twentieth-Century World
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to Victorian Poverty Studies
- 2 Two Royal Commissions
- 3 Protestant Paradigms in Victorian Poverty Studies
- 4 Political Economy and the New Poor Law
- 5 From Political Economy to Social Science
- 6 Ignoble Savages on Relief: Social Darwinism in Late Victorian Poverty Studies
- 7 Science and Pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian Poverty Studies
- 8 Three Case Studies in a priori Social Science
- 9 Unanswered Questions, Unasked Questions, and an Experimental Counter-Hypothesis
- 10 Why Critique the Victorian Social Science of Poverty?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index