... Bosanquet, Helen continued her work on working class-life and class politics. She was active in founding a social work training program at Bedford College and Women's University Settlement. She also served on the Royal Commission on Poor Law and advocated for private charity rather than public welfare...

...This chapter examines a dimension of the qiaopi trade often overlooked in existing studies (and, more broadly, in diasporic Chinese studies), its role in charity and in developing the qiaoxiang. It looks at the operational mechanisms, impact, and theoretical...

...Chapter 6 engages recent debates in anthropologies of humanitarianism and human rights that argue that categories like “victim” and “charity case” deny actors their political agency and reduce them to bare life. By examining how LRA rebels remained political militants even as they accepted charity...

..., religiously affiliated charitable organizations creatively play with both the official and unofficial criteria and terminology for different types of organizations and assistance – development, charity, humanitarianism, nongovernmental, religious, and secular – in ways that enable them to work both outside...

... that individuals who take control of their institutions may establish moral community. Participation in social institutions, especially voluntary societies, balanced the potentially excessive individualism of the American character. Visions of charity contributes to gender-based debates by using a social...

... poor. It shows that Protestants and Catholics brought different formulations of charity into play in the politics of welfare. It traces the working arrangements of visions of charity through organizational publications, interviews with staff, and participant-observation. It carries the essay...

.... In contrary, Palestinian women's initial organizing efforts and the eventual movement were part of broader historical patterns. charities Palestine Women's Congress Zionism Girl Scouts labor unions Tubi Asma Christianity Christians Arab Women's Union AWU domesticity nahda class Siksik Henriette...

... involved in charity work, managed an orphanage, nursed sick people, and offered children's after-school classes. Her and her colleagues' efforts and services helped overcome the local population's distrust of their elaborate and very nun-like habit. Warburton enjoyed depicting her poor children and adults...

...This chapter demonstrates that patronage, charity, and friendship overlapped with class antagonisms in fifteenth-century Florence. The very insistence of Quattrocento moralists that people remain dutifully in their ordained social place, that they adhere to the sumptuary laws that sought to make...

...This chapter examines the Peruvian emigrants' acts of voluntad. For Peruvian emigrants, acts of voluntad or social volition indicate their commitment to a broad range of community members often in the form of an act of altruism and charity. The chapter considers...

... as literally, on the margins of British society. This chapter begins with an account of the obstacles the disabled faced upon their return home. It shows that when all else failed them, disabled veterans turned to philanthropy and to poor relief. Yet, this chapter also demonstrates that the objects of charity...

...In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what...

... Mitrokhin Nikolai consumerism Greek society birthdays and name days Harding Susan language Aramaic Russian Orthodox Church charity work public dissatisfaction religious communities social institutions compassion benevolence In winter 1998, during my fieldwork with an international Protestant...

... also do not include many elements of working-class life such as male workplaces, sports, crime, and electoral politics. However, because of the detail the writers here include and the diversity of voices they offer, these narratives offer a crash course in social history, particularly charity, family...

...This chapter focuses on Beatrice (Potter) Webb, a slum explorer and philanthropist. Born to a wealthy Gloucestershire businessman and his wife who were involved with the Charity Organization Society (COS), Beatrice also became involved in charity work however her approach to poverty was rather...

...This chapter provides a broad overview of the text, outlines the main arguments and defines terms and ideas used throughout the book, including the concept of the objects and subjects of humanitarianism. It situates the book within the existing historiography of relief, charity, humanitarian...