Author: Thomas Welbank FowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws
Author: Peter JonesPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443886610
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
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.
Welfare's Forgotten Past
Author: Lorie CharlesworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135179638
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
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.
Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works
Author: Rena LohanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780707603797
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Records of the Office of Public Works more than 30 years old have been transferred to the National Archives, Dublin. The types of public works records are described, then listed with call numbers.
The Poor Law
Author: Thomas Welbank FowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A Treatise on the Poor Law of England
Author: James DunstanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Poor Law Magazine for Scotland
Author: A Treatise on the Poor Law of England; being a Review of the Origin and various Alterations that have been mad in the Law of Settlements and Removals
Author: Jam DunstanA History of the Irish Poor Law
Author: Sir George NichollsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Outcry against the New Poor Law ... Seventh thousand
Author: Thomas SPENCER (Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
![A Word or two about the new Poor Law; addressed to his parishioners by [S. G. O., i.e. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne] a beneficed clergyman in Buckinghamshire. (A comparison of the present Poor Law and its object, with some of the laws of God, as found in the Bible.). PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/COuIo5r8GG8C?fife=w80-h100)
Author: S. G. O.