A History of the English Poor Law
Author : George Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Poor laws
ISBN :
Author : George Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Poor laws
ISBN :
Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,14 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 : E. M. Leonard (Of Girton College)
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Poor laws
ISBN :
Author : Sir George Nicholls
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Poor laws
ISBN :
Author : E. M. Leonard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 110763279X
Originally published in 1900, Leonard's study of the early history of English poor relief sheds light on an important aspect of English social care. The treatise details the various changes to the treatment of the poor from the Anglo-Saxon period until the Civil War, as well as comparing English approaches with contemporary practices in Scotland and France. The author draws heavily on municipal and state papers from the time, relevant extracts of which are reproduced in the appendices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of social work in Britain.
Author : Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1139503650
Between the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to trace developments across that time span, focuses on three types of assistance: licensed begging and the solicitation of charitable alms; hospitals and almshouses for the bedridden and elderly; and the aid given by parishes. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief. The study highlights the creativity of local people in responding to poverty, cooperation between national levels of government, the problems of fraud and negligence, and mounting concern with proper supervision and accounting. This ground-breaking work challenges existing accounts of the Poor Laws, showing that they addressed problems with forms of aid already in use rather than creating a new system of relief.
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,1 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 : Susan E. Dinan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754655534
Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France, showing how they played a critical role in shaping the system, and also how they were shaped by it.
Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Sidney Webb
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Local government
ISBN :