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Dawtry, John J. "Elite Responses to Poverty and the Poor in Cincinnati, 1840-1900," Department of History, University of Wales, May 1997.
This study of Victorian-era social policy aims to catalog the history of that policy and to trace its determinants. In addition to reexamining some existing hypotheses—such as poor relief having been utilized by elites to “regulate” the poor—this study suggests some conclusions of its own. First, rapid urban and industrial growth—together with some severe economic reverses and the ramifications of the Civil War—had profound implications for the city’s many slum-dwelling poor: through under-employment, migrations, industrial injury, and death. Second, Cincinnati’s antebellum elite promulgated a paternalistic benevolence. Third, such notions were replaced as the development of social policy was overshadowed by captains of manufacturing industry. Fourth, the preferred mode of elite eleemosynary response—voluntarist benevolence—proved too small in scale to provide an adequate solution to the challenge posed by nineteenth-century urban poverty.
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