Poverty in the Victorian Age: English poor laws, 1834-1870
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Charities
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Charities
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Charities
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Author : Elizabeth T. Hurren
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0861932927
The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented to try to deal with it contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular being the crusade against outdoor relief, during which central government sought to halt all welfare payments at home. Via a close case study of Brixworth union in Northamptonshire, which offers an unusually rich corpus of primary material and evidence, the author looks at what happened to those impoverished men and women who struggled to live independently in a world-without-welfare outside the workhouse. She retraces the experiences of elderly paupers evicted from almshouses, of the children of the aged poor prosecuted for parental maintenance, of dying paupers who were refused medical care in their homes, and of women begging for funeral costs in as attempt to prevent the bodies of their loved ones being taken for dissection by anatomists. She then shows how increasing democratisation gave the labouring poor the means to win control of the poor law. ELIZABETH T. HURREN is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Past and Present.
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Page : 315 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Charities
ISBN : 9780576532679
Author : Samantha Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,94 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.
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
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Author : Sidney Webb
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Local government
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Author : Alan Kidd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1999-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1349276138
Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or coped with poverty without recourse to the state. The Poor Law after 1834 offered little more than a 'safety net' for the poorest, and much welfare was organised through charitable societies, self-help institutions and mutual-aid networks. Rather than look for the origins of modern provision, the author casts a searching light on the practices, ideology and outcomes of nineteenth-century welfare. This original and stimulating study, based upon a wealth of scholarship, is essential reading for all students of poverty and welfare. It also contains much to interest a wider readership.
Author : Jane Long
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Charities
ISBN : 9780861932405
In what ways did gender influence the shape of poverty, and of poor women's work, in Victorian England? This book explores the problem in the context of nineteenth-century Northumberland, examining urban and rural conditions for women, poor relief debates and practices, philanthropic activity, working-class cultures, and 'protective' intervention in women's employment.
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
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