Author : Steven King
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719061592
This study explores the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The chapters examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilization of kinship support, crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households.
Author : Alannah Tomkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526137860
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase ‘economy of makeshifts’ has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. In The poor of England some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. The essays attempt to explain how and when the poor secured access to these makeshifts and suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English ‘economy of makeshifts’ with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.
Author : Steven King
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719049408
As the Blair government launches a new campaign against poverty, the notion of “the deserving and undeserving poor” raises it head again in the media. The Poor Law, particularly the Old/New Poor Law at the junction of the 18th and 19th centuries in England is again the focus of attention. This book provides the first accessible and comprehensive overview of the literature on poverty and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700-1850.
Author : Samantha Williams
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319733197
In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.
Author : Penelope Lane
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843830779
The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies that range across time, region and occupation. Topics include the changing nature of women's work, customary norms, and women and the East India Company.
Author : Martin J. Daunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Revisionist analysis
Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0198748264
These essays honour leading historian of early modern England, Paul Slack, by engaging with his work on social policy and the history of political economy. They explore how languages of happiness and suffering developed, and how historians might explore the public employment and subjective experiences of happiness and suffering in this period.
Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 15,18 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 : Joel Mokyr
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780300124552
"In a vigorous discussion, which goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics and society, Mokyr argues that the bases of the emergence of modern economic growth in Britain are to be found in what key players knew and believed, and how those convictions affected their economic behaviour. The belief in progress, coupled with the strategies to bring it about led Britain, and eventually most of the western world, into the modern era." "With a remarkably wide range of reference, and covering sectors of the British economy often neglected, this masterful book both synthesizes existing scholarship and provides a wholly new perspective for understanding Britain's economic development in the ageof the Industrial Revolution." --Book Jacket.
Author : Ole Peter Grell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351931407
This volume looks at how northern European governments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries coped with the needs of the poor, whilst balancing any new measures against the perceived negative effects of relief upon the moral wellbeing of the poor and issues of social stability. Taken together, the essays in this volume chart the varying responses of states, social classes and political theorists towards the great social and economic issue of the age, industrialisation. Its demands and effects undermined the capacity of the old poor relief arrangements to look after those people that the fits and starts of the industrialisation cycle itself turned into paupers. The result was a response that replaced the traditional principle of 'outdoor' relief, with a generally repressive system of 'indoor' relief that lasted until the rise of organised labour forced a more benign approach to the problems of poverty.
