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- Title
Banking for Jesus: Financial Services, Charity, and an Ethical Economy in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
- Authors
Strange, Julie-Marie; Roddy, Sarah
- Abstract
The article reports that British commentators like novelist Charles Dickens and social scientist Henry Mayhew drew direct links between the growth of industrial capitalism and increased levels of debt and grinding poverty. Topics include Charitable provision in early Victorian Britain relied upon proceeds of long-standing endowments and trusts and on paternalism; and charities emerged that relied on voluntary subscriptions and donations with historical analysis of charitable fundraising.
- Subjects
MASS commentators; DICKENS, Charles, 1812-1870; SOCIAL scientists; MAYHEW, Henry, 1812-1887; CAPITALISM; CHARITABLE giving; PATERNALISM; HISTORICAL analysis
- Publication
Capitalism: A Journal of History & Economics, 2022, Vol 3, Issue 1, p106
- ISSN
2576-6392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cap.2022.0003