A History of the English Poor Law
Author | : George Nicholls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Nicholls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir George Nicholls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Poor laws |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : 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 | : George Nicholls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Poor laws |
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Author | : Paul Slack |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1995-09-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521557856 |
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Author | : Sir George Nicholls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Poor laws |
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Author | : George R. Boyer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1990-06-29 |
Genre | : 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 | : Anthony Brundage |
Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : 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 | : David Englander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : 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 | : Samantha Williams |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0861933141 |
Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a case study the lived experience of poor families in two Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it with the perspectives of other participants in parish politics, from the magistracy to the vestry, and from overseers to village ratepayers. It explores the problem of rising unemployment, the provision of parish make-work schemes, charitable provision and the wider makeshift economy, together with the attitudes of the ratepayers. That gender and life-cycle were crucial features of poverty is demonstrated: the lone mother and her dependent children and the elderly dominated the relief rolls. Poor relief might have been relatively generous but it was not pervasive - child allowances, in particular, were restricted in duration and value - and it by no means approximated to the income of other labouring families. Poor families must either have had access to additional resources, or led meagre lives. Samantha Williams is a university lecturer in local and regional history at the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow in History, Girton College, Cambridge.