Author: Publisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Poor Law Magazine and Local Government Journal
Author: The Scottish Poor Law
Author: Jean Olivia LindsayPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Based on a wide range of primary sources, including kirk session records, parliamentary papers, early newspapers, and first-hand accounts, Dr. Lindsay traces the legal development of the Scottish poor-relief system. She describes its practical operation in both urban and rural areas, giving special attention to the city of Aberdeen and the adjacent counties. She analyses the controversies and debates surrounding the English act of 1834 and Scottish Poor Law Amendment Act of 1845, including the arguments of the Glasgow minister Dr, Thomas Chalmers and the Ediburgh medical professor William Pulteney Alison.
The Councillor's Manual
Author: Abijah MurrayThe Councillor's Manual
Author: 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.
A Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Signet Library. 1882-1887
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University
Author: Harvard Law School. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
The Practice of Surgery ... Second Edition
Author: James MILLER (Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914
Author: David EnglanderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317883225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of poor relief; he considers how the New Poor Law was enacted and received and looks at how it worked in practice. The chapter on the Scottish experience will be particularly welcomed, as will Dr Englander's discussion of the place of the Poor Law within British history.