1,302
Views
17
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

The comfort of strangers: social work, modernity and late Victorian England—Part I

Pages 39-54 | Published online: 22 Feb 2007

References

  • Arata , S. D. ( 1990 ) ‘The occidental tourist: Dracula and the anxiety of reverse colonization’ , Victorian Studies , Summer , pp. 124 – 134 .
  • Barry , J. & Jones , C. (eds) ( 1994 ) Medicine and Charity before the Welfare State , Routledge , London .
  • Berman , M. 1984 . All That's Solid Melts into Air , London : Verso .
  • Bosanquet , B. ( 1889 ) ‘Idealism in social work’ , Charity Organization Review , March , pp. 122 – 133 .
  • Bosanquet , B. 1895 . “ ‘Character and its bearing on social causation’ ” . In Aspects of Social Reform , Edited by: Bosanquet , B. London : Macmillan .
  • Bosanquet , H. 1896 . Rich and Poor , London : Macmillan .
  • Bosanquet , H. 1914 . Social Work in London: 1869–1914 , London : John Murray .
  • Bowpitt , G. 1998 . ‘Evangelical Christianity, secular humanism and the genesis of British social work’ . British Journal of Social Work , 28 : 675 – 693 .
  • Briggs , A. 1976 . “ ‘Social welfare, past and present’ ” . In Traditions of Social Policy , Edited by: Halsey , A. H. Oxford : Basil Blackwell .
  • Bruford , W. H. 1975 . The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Byrne , D. 1995 . ‘De-industrialisation and dispossession: an examination of social division in the industrial city’ . Sociology , 29 ( 1 ) : 95 – 115 .
  • Castel , R. 1991 . “ ‘From dangerousness to risk’ ” . In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality , London : Harvester Wheatsheaf .
  • Clarke , P. 1978 . Liberals and Social Democrats , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Cormack , U. 1968 . “ ‘The welfare state: the formative years 1905–9’ ” . In A Reader in Social Administration , Edited by: Lochead , A. London : Constable .
  • Daly , N. ( 1998 ) ‘Blood on the tracks: sensation drama, the railway, and the dark face of modernity’ , Victorian Studies , Autumn , pp. 47 – 76 .
  • Davin , A. 1996 . Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870–1914 , London : River Oram Press .
  • Den Otter , S. M. 1996 . British Idealism and Social Explanation: A Study in Late Victorian Thought , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
  • Finer , S. E. 1970 . The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick , New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
  • Frisby , D. 1985 . ‘Georg Simmel: first sociologist of modernity’ . Theory, Culture & Society , 2 ( 3 ) : 49 – 67 .
  • Gadamer , H. 1975 . Truth and Method , London : Sheed and Ward .
  • Gente , M. 2002 . ‘Family ideology and the Charity Organization Society in Great Britain during the First World War’ . Journal of Family History , 27 ( 3 ) : 255 – 272 .
  • Giddens , A. 1991 . The Consequences of Modernity , Cambridge : Polity Press .
  • Harrison , E. 1976 . “ ‘The changing meaning of social work’ ” . In Traditions of Social Policy: Essays in Honour of Violet Butler , Edited by: Halsey , A. H. Oxford : Basil Blackwell .
  • Harrison , R. 1987 . “ ‘Sidney and Beatrice Webb’ ” . In Socialism and the Intelligentsia; 1880–1914 , Edited by: Levy , Carl . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
  • Heller , A. 1999 . A Theory of Modernity , Oxford : Blackwell Publishers .
  • Himmelfarb , G. 1984 . The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age , New York : Alfred A. Knopf .
  • Himmelfarb , G. 1991 . Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians , New York : Alfred A. Knopf .
  • Horridge , G. 1994 . The Salvation Army: Origins and Early Days, 1865–1900 , London : Ammonite Books .
  • Humphreys , R. 1995 . Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England , New York : St Martin's Press .
  • Kumar , K. 1995 . ‘Versions of the pastoral: poverty and the poor in English fiction from 1840s to 1950s’ . Journal of Historical Sociology , 8 ( 1 ) : 1 – 35 .
  • Lash , S. 1999 . Another Modernity: A Different Rationality , Oxford : Blackwell Publishers .
  • Lewis , J. 1995 . “ ‘“Not alms but a friend”: social work, poverty and relief in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’ ” . In Aspects of the History of British Social Work , Edited by: Schwieso , J. and Pettit , P. The New Bulmershe Papers, University of Reading .
  • Loch , C. 1883 . Charity and Social Life , London : Allen and Unwin .
  • Luhmann , N. 1995 . Die Soziologie des Risikos , Berlin : De Gruyter .
  • MacKenzie , N. & MacKenzie , J. (eds) ( 1982 ) The Diary of Beatrice Webb , Vol. 1 , Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, MA .
  • Mayhew , H. ( 1985 ) London Labour and the London Poor , Penguin Classics , Harmondsworth, London . Originally published in 1861 .
  • McLeod , H. 1974 . Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City , London : Croom Helm .
  • McLeod , H. (ed.) ( 1995 ) European Religion in the Age of the Great Cities, 1830–1930 , Routledge , London .
  • Meyer , P. 1983 . The Child and the State: The Intervention of the State in Family Life , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Mowat , C. L. 1961 . The Charity Organization Society: 1869–1913 , London : Methuen .
  • Nead , L. 2000 . Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth Century London , New Haven & London : Yale University Press .
  • Richards , G. 1995 . ‘“To know our fellow men to do them good”: American psychology's enduring moral project’ . History of the Human Sciences , 8 ( 3 ) : 1 – 24 .
  • Rose , N. 1999 . Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Sennett , R. 1969 . “ Middle class families and urban violence: the experience of a Chicago community in the nineteenth century ” . In Nineteenth Century Cities , Edited by: Thernstrom , S. and Sennett , R. Yale University Press, New Haven .
  • Simmel , G. ( 1978 ) ‘The metropolis and mental life’ , in Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms , ed. D. N. Levine , University of Chicago Press , Chicago . Originally published in 1903 .
  • Stedman Jones , G. 1971 . Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship between Classes in Victorian Society , Harmondsworth : Penguin Books .
  • Stedman Jones , G. 1982 . “ Working-class culture and working-class politics in London, 1870–1900 ” . In Popular Culture: Past and Present , Edited by: Waites , B. , Bennett , T. and Martin , G. London : Croom Helm .
  • Todorov , T. 2002 . Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism , New Jersey : Princeton University Press .
  • Touraine , A. 1995 . Critique of Modernity , Oxford : Blackwells .
  • Valverde , M. 1996 . ‘Despotism and ethical liberal government’ . Economy and Society , 25 ( 3 ) : 357 – 372 .
  • Valverde , M. 1998 . Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom , Cambridge : University of Cambridge Press .
  • Webb , B. ( 1926 ) My Apprenticeship , Penguin , London . Originally published in 1926 .
  • Woodroofe , K. 1962 . From Charity to Social Work , London : Routledge and Kegan Paul .
  • Zolo , D. 1992 . Democracy and Complexity , Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania University Press .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.