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Contributing Citizens : Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774814751
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contributing CitizensDDC classification:
  • 361.70971/09041
LOC classification:
  • HV41.9.C2 -- T55 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Public and Private in Welfare History -- 1 The Citizenship of Contribution: Taxation in the 1920s -- 2 The Technologies of Contribution: Taxation and Modern Fundraising Methods -- 3 Social Advertising and Social Conflict: The Community Chest Method, 1930-35 -- 4 Race, Charity, and Democracy: Organizing Inclusion, 1927-52 -- 5 How Charity Survived the Birth of the Welfare State -- 6 Reconstructing Charity: The Postwar Politics of Public and Private, 1945-66 -- 7 Justice, Inclusion, and the Emotions of Obligation in 1950s Charity -- Conclusion: Similarities, Differences, and Historical Change -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Public and Private in Welfare History -- 1 The Citizenship of Contribution: Taxation in the 1920s -- 2 The Technologies of Contribution: Taxation and Modern Fundraising Methods -- 3 Social Advertising and Social Conflict: The Community Chest Method, 1930-35 -- 4 Race, Charity, and Democracy: Organizing Inclusion, 1927-52 -- 5 How Charity Survived the Birth of the Welfare State -- 6 Reconstructing Charity: The Postwar Politics of Public and Private, 1945-66 -- 7 Justice, Inclusion, and the Emotions of Obligation in 1950s Charity -- Conclusion: Similarities, Differences, and Historical Change -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.

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