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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Introduction CAUSE FOR CONCERN
- Part One THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 1 THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH
- Chapter 2 THE CREED OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 3 THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 4 BIRTH OF THE SOCIAL WORKER
- Chapter 5 THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
- Chapter 6 THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
- Chapter 7 A VOLUNTARY WORKER IN THE WELFARE STATE
- Chapter 8 THE GLORY THAT WAS GRANBY
- Chapter 9 THE DISINHERITED SOCIETY
- Chapter 10 DEMOCRACY REDISCOVERED
- Part Two TRACT FOR THE TIMES
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - THE CREED OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
from Part One - THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Introduction CAUSE FOR CONCERN
- Part One THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 1 THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH
- Chapter 2 THE CREED OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 3 THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 4 BIRTH OF THE SOCIAL WORKER
- Chapter 5 THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
- Chapter 6 THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
- Chapter 7 A VOLUNTARY WORKER IN THE WELFARE STATE
- Chapter 8 THE GLORY THAT WAS GRANBY
- Chapter 9 THE DISINHERITED SOCIETY
- Chapter 10 DEMOCRACY REDISCOVERED
- Part Two TRACT FOR THE TIMES
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In which I describe how the turn of the century saw the coming together in Liverpool of the moral commitment of the merchant community, the idealism of the young University and the passion of the women's demand for equal citizenship. The outcome was an Urban Ideal, based on the principle of the universal right to social responsibility as an attribute of citizenship.
I set off for the University in 1923, my pigtails coiled over my ears like headphones (as was the fashion of the day). The significance of what I was doing completely escaped me. It simply never occurred to me to ask questions about how the University came to exist in what was, at that time, the improbable setting of a commercial city. Nor how I as a young woman came to be there, all set to acquire a degree with a view to embarking on an independent career of my own. It is only now I realise that I was the unsuspecting beneficiary of a most remarkable coming-together of the right people, in the right place, at the right time. Without the solid base of the moral commitment of Liverpool's philanthropic tradition, the University would never have come into being. Without the University, that commitment would never have blossomed into the magical vision of the urban city as the finest flower of the Industrial Revolution. Without the stimulus and the opportunity offered by these two together, the passionate hunger of women to play their part in the society in which they found themselves might well have run into the sands of frustration.
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- The Disinherited SocietyA Personal View of Social Responsibility in Liverpool During the Twentieth Century, pp. 25 - 40Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1996