Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Decline of the Orphanage and the Invention of Welfare -- The Institutional Inclination -- Two Dimensions of Institutional Change -- Institutional Self-Doubt and Internal Reform -- From Orphanage to Home -- The Orphanage Reaches Outward -- The Unwalled Institution of the State -- The Perils of Placing Out -- The Experiment of Having No Home -- for Mothers Pensions -- Religious Wars -- Conclusion: An End to the Orphanage -- Notes -- Index.