Containing the Poor

The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871

Автор: Silvia Marina Arrom

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In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House - the centrepiece of a bold experimen...

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Автор

Silvia Marina Arrom

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2001

страници

416

EAN

9780822325277

ISBN

0822325276

Enbook ID

04937266

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

812

Размери

163 x 241 x 33

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In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House - the centrepiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In 'Containing the Poor", Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, showing how the asylum functioned primarily to educate white orphans instead of suppressing mendicancy and exerting control over the multiracial community for whom it was designed. For a nation that had traditionally regarded the needy as having the undisputed right to receive alms and whose affluent citizens felt duty-bound to dispense them, the experiment was doomed from the start, explains Arrom. She uses deep archival research to reveal that - much to policymakers' dismay - the Poor House became an orphanage largely because the government had underestimated the embeddedness of this moral economy of begging. While tracing the course of an eventful century that also saw colonialism give way to republicanism in Mexico, Arrom links the Poor House's transformation with other societal factors as well, such as Mexican women's increasing impact on social welfare policies. With poverty, begging, and homelessness still rampant in much of Latin America today, this study of changing approaches to social welfare will be particularly valuable to student and scholars of Mexican and Latin American society and history, as well as those engaged in the study of social and welfare policy.

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