Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 1997-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1349252603
Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people. This book will bring together some of the best work based on these sources.
Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 1996-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333678916
Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people. This book will bring together some of the best work based on these sources.
Author : Lynn A. Botelho
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843830948
Based on documents from two Suffolk villages, this study examines the operation of the poor law and the individual effort the elderly poor needed to make to survive.
Author : Helen Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521858763
This text provides an assessment of the most important research published in the past three decades on the English family.
Author : Michael Bonner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791486761
Offering insights and analysis in a field that has only recently come into existence, this book explores the ideals and institutions through which Middle Eastern societies—from the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. to the present day—have confronted poverty and the poor. By introducing new sources and presenting familiar ones with new questions, the contributors examine ideas about poverty and the poor, ideals and practices of charity, and state and private initiatives of poor relief over this extensive time span. They avoid easy generalizations about Islam and the Middle East as they seek to set the ideals and practices in comparative perspective.
Author : Inga Brandes
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783039102563
Edited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.
Author : A. Levene
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1137009519
Was there a notion of childhood for the labouring classes, and was it distinctive from that of the elite? Examining pauper childhood, family life and societal reform, Levene asks whether new models of childhood in the eighteenth century affected the treatment of the young poor, and reveals how they and their families were helped through hard times.
Author : Samantha Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1843838664
Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mother and the elderly.
Author : Joseph Harley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1526160838
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650–1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be ‘poor’ by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution.
Author : Samantha A. Shave
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1526106183
Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and implementation of ‘enabling acts’ at the end of the old poor laws; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. Pointing towards a new direction in the study of poor law administration, it examines how people, both those in positions of power and the poor, could shape pauper policies. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England.
