Author: BOSANQUET Helen
Title: Social Work in London 1869 to 1912: A History of the Charity Organisation Society.
Description: London, John Murray 1914 xi, 420pp 23x15, blue cloth library binding Ex-lib, couple of discreet labels, few margin pencil marks, good thus. Helen Bosanquet was a founder (with Octavia Hill) and leading figure in the Charity Organisation Society, established both to co-ordinate the many thousands of different charities in Victorian London, but also to promote a philosophy of self-help and limited state intervention. In the early 20th century she challenged Rowntree's conclusions in his study of poverty in York, and her work also led to the professionalisation of social work.

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