Neighbourhood Guilds: An Instrument of Social Reform |
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Page 7 - Guilds and to push forward, as they are doing, at least one specific reform of general interest." (pp. 14-15.) Dr. Coit defined as follows the nature of a neighbourhood guild : — " The very name, Neighbourhood Guild, suggests the fundamental idea which this new institution embodies : namely, that irrespective of religious belief or non-belief, all the people, men, women, and children, in any one street, or...
Page 20 - Suppose you go to a man's house as a visitor: you ask, where is Smith (the pauper)? You see his wife or his children, who say they do not know where he is, but that they believe he is gone in search of work. How are you to tell, in such a case, whether he is at work or not? It could only be by following him in the morning; and you must do that every day, because he may be in work one day, and not another. Suppose you have a shoemaker who demands relief of you, and you give it him on his declaring...
Page 11 - The way to save and prevent is often by educating the intellect, and cultivating the taste of the person in danger or already fallen; and again, the superior development of one member of a family or of a circle of friends may prove the social salvation of all the rest.
Page 14 - London), to have organised five clubs well, and through them to have founded a circulating library, Sunday afternoon free concerts, Sunday evening lectures, Saturday evening dances for members, a choral society, and fifteen to twenty classes in various branches of technical and literary education...
Page 19 - If we consider the vast amount of personal attention and time needed to understand and deal effectively with the case of any one man or family that has fallen into vice, crime or pauperism, we shall see the impossibility of coping with even these evils alone, unless the helpers be both many and constantly at hand.
Page 7 - London, shall be organized into a set of clubs, which are by themselves, or in alliance with those of other neighborhoods, to carry out, or induce others to carry out, all the reforms - domestic, industrial, educational, provident or recreative - which the social ideal demands (Coit 1974: 7).
Page 20 - I owe for my rent; I have not paid my chandler's shop score; I have been summoned, and I expect an execution out against me, and if you stop my relief, I must come home," (that is, he must go into the workhouse).