Unsentimental reformer
the life of Josephine Shaw Lowell
by Joan Waugh
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.
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Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell
January 15, 1998, Harvard University Press
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Unsentimental reformer: the life of Josephine Shaw Lowell
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-289) and index.
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