A History of the English Poor Law
Author : Sir George Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Poor laws
ISBN :
Author : Sir George Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Poor laws
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Author : Anthony Brundage
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 033368270X
Brundage examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early 18th century to its termination in 1930.
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521557856
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521364795
This book examines the political motivation, regional variations and the economic and demographic impact of the Poor Law in the rural south of England.
Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521364799
During the last third of the eighteenth century, most parishes in rural southern England adopted policies providing poor relief outside workhouses to unemployed and underemployed able-bodied labourers. The debate over the economic effects of 'outdoor' relief payments to able-bodied workers has continued for over 200 years. This book examines the economic role of the Poor Law in the rural south of England. It presents a model of the agricultural labour market that provides explanations for the widespread adoption of outdoor relief policies, the persistence of such policies until the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834, and the sharp regional differences in the administration of relief. The book challenges many commonly held beliefs about the Poor Law and concludes that the adoption of outdoor relief for able-bodied paupers was a rational response by politically dominant farmers to changes in the rural economic environment.
Author : David Englander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1317883217
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of poor relief; he considers how the New Poor Law was enacted and received and looks at how it worked in practice. The chapter on the Scottish experience will be particularly welcomed, as will Dr Englander's discussion of the place of the Poor Law within British history.
Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443886610
With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often thought of as essentially “modern”: How should the state support those in work but who do not earn enough to get by? How should communities deal with in-migrants and immigrants who might have made only the lightest contribution to the economic and social lives of those communities? What basket of welfare rights ought to be attached to the status of citizen? How might people prove, maintain and pass on a sense of “belonging” to a place? How should and could the poor navigate a welfare system which was essentially discretionary? What agency could the poor have and how did ordinary officials understand their respective duties to the poor and to taxpayers? And how far was the state successful in introducing, monitoring and maintaining a uniform welfare system which matched the intent and letter of the law? This volume takes these core questions as a starting point. Synthesising a rich body of sources ranging from pauper letters through to legal cases in the highest courts in the land, this book offers a re-evaluation of the Old and New Poor Laws. Challenging traditional chronological dichotomies, it evaluates and puts to use new sources, and questions a range of long-standing assumptions about the experience of being poor. In doing so, the compelling voices of the poor move to centre stage and provide a human dimension to debates about rights, obligations and duties under the Old and New Poor Laws.
Author : Sir George Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Poor laws
ISBN :