Pauperism

"Pauperism" long ago took on the color of culpability.

Economist's View 2010

"Pauperism" long ago took on the color of culpability.

Economist's View 2010

If you haven't already, you may wish to read Tocqueville's paper, "Memoirs on Pauperism".

Will Wilkinson on Inequality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Among the more infamous of these families during the 19th century was the Jukes, a clan from upstate New York who counted prostitutes, thieves and drunkards in its ranks and whom the reformer Richard Dugdale described in voyeuristic detail in his widely read 1877 book, "The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity."

Call Them the Ishmaels 2009

This once great nation of producers has run out of steam somewhere between Pauperism and the ghost town of the eternal Proletariat.

Archive 2009-01-01 Paleocrat 2009

York Bank for Savings 'directors also headed the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism and simultaneously utilized both institutions as instruments to correct drinking and gambling among poor, working New Yorkers.

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

Articles of Food and Drink, and the Best Modes of Preparation (New York: Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 1821), 7. back

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

Note 30: The expense of purchasing food in the 1820s led the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism to publish a pamphlet entitled, Plain Directions on Domestic Economy: Showing Particularly What Are the Cheapest, and Most Nourishing

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

New York: Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 1821.

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

Turning the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism savings bank argument on its head, working men often cited dishonest bankers who

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006