Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts

by Kathleen Martin

Victorian Social Science in a Twentieth-Century World Introduction to Victorian Poverty Studies Two Royal Commissions Protestant Paradigms in Victorian Poverty Studies Political Economy and the New Poor Law From Political Economy to Social Science Ignoble Savages on Social Darwinism in Late Victorian Poverty Studies Science and Pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian Poverty Studies Three Case Studies in a priori Social Science Unanswered Questions, Unasked Questions, and an Experimental Counter-Hypothesis Why Critique the Victorian Social Science of Poverty? Notes Bibliography Index

240 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2008

Reviews

[Kirsten · Rating 5 out of 5]

So topical for my project, and so thoughtful and interesting!