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Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66
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Shirley Tillotson
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 5/20/2008
ISBN: 9780774814737
$34.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2009
ISBN: 9780774814744
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About the Book
Shortlisted, 2010 Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
Contributing Citizens tells the social, cultural, and political history of Community Chests, the forerunners of today’s United Way, to provide a unique perspective on the evolution of professional fundraising, private charity, and the development of the welfare state. Blending a national perspective with rich case studies of Halifax, Ottawa, and Vancouver, Shirley Tillotson shows that fundraising work in the mid-twentieth century involved organizing and promoting social responsibility in new ways, sometimes coercively. In the 1940s and 1950s, fundraisers adopted the language of welfare state reform and helped to establish both the notion of universal contribution and the foundation of community organization from which major social policies grew. Peopled by a host of forceful characters, this is a lively account of how raising money raised the level of Canadian democracy.
About the Author(s)
Shirley Tillotson is Chair of the Department of History at Dalhousie University.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Public and Private in Welfare History
1 The Citizenship of Contribution: Taxation in the 1920s
2 The Technologies of Contribution: Taxation and Modern Fundraising Methods
3 Social Advertising and Social Conflict: The Community Chest Method in Vancouver, 1930-35
4 Race, Charity, and Democracy: Organizing Inclusion, 1927-52
5 How Charity Survived the Birth of the Welfare State
6 Reconstructing Charity: The Postwar Politics of Public and Private, 1945-66
7 Justice, Inclusion, and the Emotions of Obligation in 1950s Charity
Conclusion: Similarities, Differences, and Historical Change
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
“This is the first Canadian book to study in such a thorough way the intertwined history of modern charitable giving and the development of the welfare state. Written with lucidity and precision, this innovative work breaks new ground in the debate about the relationship between the private and public sectors of social welfare.”
-- James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus
“Tillotson takes what is often seen by historians as a ‘conservative’ force in Canadian history -- charitable fundraising -- and creates a nuanced and sympathetic account of its origins, failures, and successes. By incorporating the local histories of Halifax, Ottawa, and Vancouver, she allows us to see how large-scale political change played out in local contexts. Contributing Citizens is a clear, thoughtful, and well-researched contribution to the field of Canadian history.
-- Lara Campbell, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University
Written by a historian, this is the first Canadian book to explore the evolution of modern charitable giving and the development of that country’s welfare state. The author’s meticulously traced account of the rise of professional fundraising leads her to argue against the popular view that the welfare state killed off private charity. … However persuasive the reader finds this argument, it is worth getting hold of a copy of this book for the illustrations alone. Tillotson has collected a dozen superb examples of early twentieth century fundraising appeals that represent a unique slice of social history, and show how far the fundraising profession has come in just a few decades.
- Beth Breeze, Philanthrophy UK Newsletter, Issue 34, September 2008
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Social Work
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