Social Welfare, 1850–1950

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Terry Copp

      Pages 1-21

3. Charity, Health and Housing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Evangelical Social Work in Canada: Salvationists and Sailors’ Friends, 1890-1920

      • Judith Fingard

      Pages 25-44

   3. The Child Welfare Movement in Montreal to 1920

      • Terry Copp

      Pages 45-59

   4. Health in Buenos Aires in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

      • Carlos Andres Escude

      Pages 60-70

   5. The Denial of Social Experiment in Canadian Housing Policy before the Second World War

      • John Weaver

      Pages 71-86

   6. Housing in Buenos Aires 1887-1914

      • Francis Korn, Lidia De La Torre

      Pages 87-104

4. Labour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. The Australian Experiment of Compulsory Arbitration

      • Diane Kirkby

      Pages 107-124

   3. The Canadian State’s Attempt to Manage Class Conflict, 1900-1948

      • Gregory S. Kealey

      Pages 125-147

5. Comparisons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Argentina and Canada, 1880-1930: Problems and Solutions in Immigrant Communities

      • H. S. Ferns

      Pages 151-168

   3. Social Welfare and the Slump: Argentina in the 1930s

      • Peter Alhadeff

      Pages 169-178

   4. Social Experiments in Regions of Recent Settlement: Australia, Argentina and Canada

      • John Fogarty

      Pages 179-199

6. Back Matter

   Pages 201-208

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This historical study of the development of social welfare systems in divergent countries draws on a variety of essays to examine the work of each country in turn, followed by a comparison of all three and an examination of social experiments in regions of recent settlement.

• Australia
• settlement
• social work

• University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  D. C. M. Platt

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