Poor Laws PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Poor Laws PDF full book. Access full book title Poor Laws.
Author | : Peter Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443886610 |
Download Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Marjorie Keniston McIntosh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139503650 |
Download Poor Relief in England, 1350–1600 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Lynn Hollen Lees |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1998-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521572613 |
Download The Solidarities of Strangers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of English policies toward the poor from the 1600s to the present, showing how clients and officials negotiated welfare settlements.
Author | : Great Britain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1724 |
Genre | : Poor |
ISBN | : |
Download Poor Laws: Or, The Laws and Statutes Relating to the Settling, Maintenance, and Employment of the Poor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Burn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1764 |
Genre | : Charity laws and legislation |
ISBN | : |
Download The History of the Poor Laws Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Bleamire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1800 |
Genre | : Poor |
ISBN | : |
Download Remarks on the Poor Laws Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lorie Charlesworth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1135179638 |
Download Welfare's Forgotten Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.
Author | : Paul Slack |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1995-09-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521557856 |
Download The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Author | : Richard BURN (LL.D.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1764 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The History of the Poor Laws: with Observations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jeremy Bentham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199242320 |
Download Writings on the Poor Laws Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vol. 1: In the essays presented in this volume, Bentham lays down the theoretical principles from which he develops his proposals for reform of the English poor laws in response to the perceived crisis in poor relief in the mid-1790s. In "Essays on the Subject of the Poor Laws", Bentham seeks to justify the principles on which entitlement to relief should be grounded, while in "Pauper Systems Compared", he presents a sustained comparison between home relief and institutional relief. The polemical "Observations on the Poor Bill" is a lively critique of the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by William Pitt in 1796. The ideas advanced here by Bentham were a significant influence on Edwin Chadwick, and through his mediation, on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The essays are based almost entirely on manuscript sources