the life of Josephine Shaw Lowell
Edición de la obra Unsentimental reformer
| Autor | Joan Waugh |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, Mass |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 296 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780674930360 |
| ISBN-10 | 0674930363 |
| OCLC | 36877370 |
| LCCN | 97015647 |
| Número de Cutter | W354u |
Such was the massive and pitiless industrialization of the nation after the Civil War that Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843-1905) recoiled and sought a new way to approach poverty. She rationalized charity toward hapless families and children in ways that established social responsibility for the welfare of the poor. A Brahmin, member of an illustrious family, sister of the martyred Robert Gould Shaw, who led his proud black troops against Fort Wagner, and, later, a war widow, Lowell constantly responded to changing ideological and economic conditions affecting the poor. This book challenges all previous interpretations of Lowell as a "genteel" reformer mostly interested in social control of the underclass. Rather, her aim was to cure pauperism, and her strategies eventually led her to support higher wages and full employment.