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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A major study focusing on child-helping agencies of the Progressive Era<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877223375&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="328_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Saving the Waifs</h1>
<h3>LeRoy Ashby</h3>
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<BR></P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"A major study....By focusing on the less well-known child-helping agencies of the Progressive Era, Ashby deepens our understanding of the period and of the way earnest volunteers sought to go about the business of saving dependent and delinquent children."</I>
<br>—<b>Joseph M. Hawes</b>, Kansas State University<I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>At the turn of the century efforts by voluntary groups and social institutions to confront the problems of orphans, "street arabs," newsboys, and waifs were considered a major thrust for progressive reform. The conflicts arising from these activities—social justice vs. social control, voluntary vs. government action, children's rights vs. society's rights, and home vs. institutional care—set the stage for subsequent social welfare programs.
<BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>LeRoy Ashby</b> is Professor of History at Washington State University and the author of <i>The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920s</i>.</P>
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