'A Almshouse Ting Dat': Developments in Poor Relief and Child Welfare in Jamaica during the Interwar Years

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dc.contributor.advisorCox, Edwarden_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberByrd, Alexanderen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWard, Kerryen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberShehabuddin, Rahnumaen_US
dc.creatorRoper, Shanien_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-24T19:46:30Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-24T19:46:33Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-07-24T19:46:30Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-07-24T19:46:33Zen_US
dc.date.created2012-12en_US
dc.date.issued2013-07-24en_US
dc.date.submittedDecember 2012en_US
dc.date.updated2013-07-24T19:46:33Zen_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the development of poor relief and child welfare policy in Jamaica during the interwar years. It establishes the paradigms for accessing relief and how this influenced broader discussions of poverty, class and citizenship in society. As such it shows how these concerns about poverty, in the public sphere, influenced state policy as it related to tackling juvenile delinquency and destitution in society. Currently, the historiography of the 1930s emphasizes the role of labor unrest as a propelling force to political change in the Caribbean. My thesis, while accepting this premise, uses the poor relief administration to elaborate upon the response of colonial administrators to pauperism in Jamaica. Financial difficulties restricted the amount of assistance provided to the aged and infirm, single mothers, orphans and juvenile delinquents. Inevitability, access to assistance became tinged with tensions of race, class and gender in the island. I conclude, therefore, that colonial administrators used the poor relief administration to intervene in the dialectic of poverty, class, citizenship and gender especially in the rehabilitation of destitute, displaced and delinquent children.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationRoper, Shani. "'A Almshouse Ting Dat': Developments in Poor Relief and Child Welfare in Jamaica during the Interwar Years." (2013) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71686">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71686</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.slug123456789/ETD-2012-12-268en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/71686en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectPoor reliefen_US
dc.subjectChild welfareen_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectIndustrial schoolsen_US
dc.subjectReformatoriesen_US
dc.subjectJuvenile delinquencyen_US
dc.title'A Almshouse Ting Dat': Developments in Poor Relief and Child Welfare in Jamaica during the Interwar Yearsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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