{"publishers": ["Harvard University Press"], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["1525915"], "goodreads": ["2969573"]}, "subtitle": "a prehistory of the American welfare system", "isbn_10": ["0674465911"], "subject_place": ["United States"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["362.7/0973"], "covers": [1336584], "lc_classifications": ["HV91 .C74 1998", "HV91"], "key": "/books/OL366338M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL229211A"}], "publish_places": ["Cambridge, Mass"], "uri_descriptions": ["Book review (H-Net)"], "pagination": "xii, 383 p. :", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part27.dat:78148644:1009", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v37.i04.records.utf8:1684015:1009", "bwb:9780674465916", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part27.utf8:20999459:1009", "marc:marc_nuls/NULS_PHC_180925.mrc:173975532:1256", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:301555216:3066", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_009.bib.mrc:231150593:2258"], "title": "Building the invisible orphanage", "lccn": ["98026789"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-374) and index."}, "number_of_pages": 383, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "url": ["http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b4w0-aa"], "subjects": ["Public welfare -- United States -- History", "United States -- Social policy", "Child welfare -- United States -- History", "Welfare state", "Orphanages -- United States -- History"], "publish_date": "1998", "publish_country": "mau", "by_statement": "Matthew A. Crenson.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL1913579W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "uris": ["http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b4w0-aa"], "local_id": ["urn:nuls:31786101143326"], "oclc_numbers": ["98026789", "39269604", "212806713"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management.\n\nNew arrangements for child welfare policy emerged gradually as superintendents, visiting agents, and charity officials responded to the difficulties that they encountered in running orphanages or creating systems that served as alternatives to institutional care.\n\nCrenson also follows the decades-long debate about the relative merits of family care or institutional care for dependent children. Leaving poor children at home with their mothers emerged as the most generally acceptable alternative to the orphanage, along with an ambitious new conception of social reform.\n\nInstead of sheltering vulnerable children in institutions designed to transform them into virtuous citizens, the reformers of the Progressive Era tried to integrate poor children into the larger society, while protecting them from its perils."}, "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-21T15:21:59.531258"}}