Author: Nicholas C. EdsallPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780874710267
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Anti-Poor Law Movement, 1834-44
Author: Nicholas C. EdsallPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780874710267
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
English Poor Law History
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
English Poor Law Policy
Author: Sidney WebbPoverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850
Author: Steven KingPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
As the Blair government launches a new campaign against poverty, the notion of “the deserving and undeserving poor” raises it head again in the media. The Poor Law, particularly the Old/New Poor Law at the junction of the 18th and 19th centuries in England is again the focus of attention. This book provides the first accessible and comprehensive overview of the literature on poverty and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700-1850.
Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe
Author: Ole Peter GrellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351931393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth century, however, the rapid social and economic changes brought about by industrialisation put these systems under intolerable strain, forcing radical new solutions to be sought to address both old and new problems of health care and poor relief. This volume looks at how northern European governments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries coped with the needs of the poor, whilst balancing any new measures against the perceived negative effects of relief upon the moral wellbeing of the poor and issues of social stability. Taken together, the essays in this volume chart the varying responses of states, social classes and political theorists towards the great social and economic issue of the age, industrialisation. Its demands and effects undermined the capacity of the old poor relief arrangements to look after those people that the fits and starts of the industrialisation cycle itself turned into paupers. The result was a response that replaced the traditional principle of 'outdoor' relief, with a generally repressive system of 'indoor' relief that lasted until the rise of organised labour forced a more benign approach to the problems of poverty. Although complete in itself, this volume also forms the third of a four-volume survey of health care and poor relief provision between 1500 and 1900, edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.
The Book of the Bastiles
Author: George Robert Wythen BaxterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Poverty, Gender and Life-cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834
Author: Samantha WilliamsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0861933141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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.
Early Modern Conceptions of Property
Author: John BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136190775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Original historical and literary case studies Distinguished contributors from different fields - law, art history, literature Challenging and sophisticated theory International perspective First book in series brilliantly reviewed
Child Workers in England, 1780–1820
Author: Dr Katrina HoneymanPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409479889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile entrepreneurs. This study is the first to examine in detail both the process and experience of parish factory apprenticeship, and to illuminate the role played by children in early industrial expansion. It challenges prevailing notions of exploitation which permeate historical discussion of the early labour force and questions both the readiness with which parishes 'offloaded' large numbers of their poor children to distant factories, and the harsh discipline assumed to have been universal among early factory masters. Finally the author explores the way in which parish apprentices were used to construct a gendered labour force. Dr Honeyman's book is a major contribution to studies in child labour and to the broader social, economic, and business history of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Author: PetersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521176385
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is the annual publication of lectures given at various universities around the world. Established to reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values, the lectureships are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions.