Author: Great Britain. Poor Law CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Extracts from the Information Received by His Majesty's Commissioners, as to the Administration and Operation of the Poor-laws
Author: Great Britain. Poor Law CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Extracts from the Information Received by His Majesty's Commissioners
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385618711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
Poor Law to Poverty Program
Author: Samuel MencherPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974126
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The welfare state is a pervasive and controversial aspect of contemporary society. Samuel Mencher provides a historical and philosophical background on the growth of welfare policy through its sources, concepts, and specific programs. He covers a period from the English Poor Law of the sixteenth century through contemporary times-viewing changing attitudes toward poverty, new concepts on the nature of man and the influence of scientific thought-and also discusses mercantilism, laissez-faire, utilitarianism, liberalism, socialism, romanticism, social Darwinism, and modern capitalism as major influences on the growth of economic security policy.
Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the Administration and practical Operation of the Poor Laws
Author: With Us Always
Author: Donald T. CritchlowPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847689705
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare. The prominent historians in this collection demonstrate how solutions to poverty are functions of culture, religion, and politics, and how social provisions for the poor have evolved across the centuries.
Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital
Author: Jessica A. Sheetz-NguyenPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144113168X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public welfare, taking the nineteenth-century London Foundling Hospital as its focus. It delineates the social rules that constructed the gendered world of the Victorian age, and uses 'respectability' as a factor for analysis: the women who successfully petitioned the Foundling Hospital for admission of their infants were not East End prostitutes, but rather unmarried women, often domestic servants, determined to maintain social respectability. The administrators of the Foundling Hospital reviewed over two hundred petitions annually; deliberated on about one hundred cases; and accepted not more than 25 per cent of all cases. Using primary material from the Foundling Hospital's extensive archives, this study moves methodically from the broad social and geographical context of London and the Foundling Hospital itself, to the micro-historical case data of individual mothers and infants.
The Law Magazine
Author: The Law Magazine and Review
Author: Catalogue of Library
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Author: