Author: Charles Edward TrevelyanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Seven Articles on London Pauperism and Its Relations with the Labour Market
Author: Charles Edward TrevelyanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Outcast London
Author: Gareth Stedman JonesPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781680124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers and the artisans and seamstresses engaged in seasonal and workshop trades. This vast assemblage was volatile, subject to the ups and downs of the world economy, to the vagaries of the weather, and to the rise and fall of various trades. Its crises could cause panic in wealthy London. New forms of charity came into being as well as, eventually, an embryonic form of the twentieth century welfare state. At first sight, the London described in this book is wholly remote from the city encountered today. But developments in recent decades reveal that the types of irregular employment, poverty and inequality experienced by modern Londoners are not so distant from those familiar to their Victorian and Edwardian ancestors.
Pauperism; seven sermons
Author: Brooke LambertThe London Journal
Author: British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Singular Continuities
Author: George K. BehlmerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804734899
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This volume explores the appropriation of the past in modern British culture. The twelve essays argue that to distinguish between "the new" and "the traditional" today often draws a false dichotomy. It argues that Britishness, in fact, has been the product of continuous creation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Reports of the Council and of the District Committees
Author: Charity Organisation Society (London, England)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism
Author: Robert F. HaggardPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313095841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism examines the question of where to locate the ideological break between classical liberalism and the underlying principles of the modern Welfare State. While most historians of 19th century Britain argue that such a shift occurred prior to 1900, Haggard challenges the contention that classical liberalism had been so undermined by this point that the modern Welfare State was largely inevitable. He considers the public discussion of progress, poverty, charity, socialism, and social reform, and he concludes that the vast majority of the Victorian middle and upper classes remained wedded to the tenets of classical liberalism up to the close of the century. In contrast to traditional characterizations, Haggard argues that progress, individualism, and character continued to resonate within Victorian society throughout the late Victorian period. Private philanthropy grew increasingly active as a remedy to urban poverty. The London Socialist movement, the New Unionism, the Independent Labour Party, and the New Liberalism, each proponents of socialistic reforms, found themselves marginalized politically. The key to the social debates of the day was the concept of the deserving versus the undeserving poor. Although the deserving might expect some private or public aid, the undeserving were to be punished for their lack of character. Until this notion was overturned, the Welfare State would remain outside the realm of practical politics.
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