The Randwick Asylum: Organizational Resistance to Social Change

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Abstract
The Society for the Relief of Destitute Children began at a meeting held in 1852.1 It was legislated out of existence in 1916.2 In the sixty-four years of its existence it became the doyen of the voluntary charities of Sydney, attracted more favourable subsidy arrangements from the government than any of its competitors and suffered a rapid decline when it was unable to adapt to changing views of child care. This paper demonstrates how the rigidity of the organization combined with the effects of favourable subsidies to produce the forcible dissolution of the Society and the confiscation of its assets.

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