| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 150 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why Bother?; 1: Origins of a Dilemma; 2: The Urban Ideal; 3: The Theory of Social Responsibility (1905-1909); 4: The Health of the Body Corporate; 5: The Craft of the Social Administrator (1911-1914); 6: The Practice of Social Administration (1914-1918); 7: The End of the Beginning (1919-1924); 8: The Birth of a New Philanthropy; 9: The New Philanthropy Vindicated (1923-1934); Conclusion: From Rhetoric to Reality; Bibliography |
| Summary |
This book tells the personal and political story of a previously uncelebrated man, whose interests and gifts contributed greatly to the transformation of social welfare in Britain in the early part of the twentieth century. In 1905 Frederic D?Aeth, a disillusioned clergyman, came to Liverpool as the first paid lecturer in the newly formed School for Social Work Training, and went on to become the Director of Reports for the Liverpool Council for Voluntary Aid. Margaret Simey shows how, in this capacity, D?Aeth achieved the near impossible task of co-ordinating the welter of diverse charitable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
D'Aeth, Frederic George.
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| SUBJECT |
D'Aeth, Frederic George fast |
| Subject |
Philanthropists -- England -- Liverpool -- Biography
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Social workers -- England -- Liverpool -- Biography
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Social service -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 20th century
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Human services -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
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Human services
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Philanthropists
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Social service
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Social workers
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England -- Liverpool
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bingham, David, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9781846313158 |
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1846313155 |
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9780853237594 |
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085323759X |
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