Book Description
A new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy.
Author : Felix Driver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521607476
A new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy.
Author : Virginia Crossman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1526129612
This is a study of the nature and operation of the Irish poor law system in the post-famine period. It traces the expansion of the system to encompass a wide range of welfare services, and explains the ideological and political context in which expansion took place. The only local government bodies in rural areas to include elected members, poor law boards provided many Irish nationalists with their first experience of administrative power. As the influence of the nationalist guardians in the south and west grew, so the character of poor law administration in these areas began to change. Crossman explores the nature and significance of this process through detailed analysis of local decision-making and official actions, providing a new perspective on relationships between central and local administrators, welfare providers and welfare recipients, and the respectable and non-respectable. Topics covered include the politicisation of the welfare system, the relief of distress, the provision of labourers’ cottages and the role of women in poor law administration.
Author : Virginia Crossman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719073779
This work will be essential reading for social and political historians of nineteenth-century Ireland. It is the first academic study to explore the meanings of poverty, destitution and respectability in post-famine Ireland through the institution of the poor law, and is an original in content and interpretation. Previous works have focussed either on the relief system or on political developments. This book analyses poor law administration from a social and a political perspective. There is currently renewed interest in the English poor law of 1834, on which the Irish poor law was modelled. This book will provide historians of poverty and welfare, with an important comparative dimension
Author : Robert Pashley (Barrister.)
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : Elizabeth T. Hurren
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 086193329X
The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented in response contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular being the crusade against outdoor relief, whereby the government sought to halt all welfare payments at home. Via a close case study of Brixworth union in Northamptonshire, Elizabeth T. Hurren looks at what happened to those impoverished men and women who struggled to live independently in a world without welfare outside of the workhouse.
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Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Political science
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Author : Henry Fawcett
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : Henry Fawcett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382180979
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Francis Wayland
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Elizabeth T. Hurren
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 14,77 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.