Social enterprise in the 19th century
In my StartingBloc talk yesterday, I noted that one of the hallmarks of 19th century charity was a "social" movement grounded in entrepreneurship and the (supposedly) new science of networks--in many ways, social enterprise today is history repeating. Here's a glimpse of this past from a New York Times article on tenement photographer Jacob Riis:
The audiences Riis built through his lectures helped to explain the phenomenal response to “How the Other Half Lives,†which was aimed at a more secular audience than the lectures. Riis pointed to examples of Christian charity work and private housing development by benevolent businessmen. “While he also urged further legal measures to improve building codes for new tenements and to force remodeling of existing ones, he placed far more faith in the entrepreneur than in the state,†Mr. Czitrom writes.
The audiences Riis built through his lectures helped to explain the phenomenal response to “How the Other Half Lives,†which was aimed at a more secular audience than the lectures. Riis pointed to examples of Christian charity work and private housing development by benevolent businessmen. “While he also urged further legal measures to improve building codes for new tenements and to force remodeling of existing ones, he placed far more faith in the entrepreneur than in the state,†Mr. Czitrom writes.
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