Author: Derek Fraser
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Includes a chapter on Scotland.

Author: Rosalind Mitchison
Publisher: Polygon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Based entirely on research from primary sources, this book describes the development of the Scottish Poor Law as an instrument for the preservation of the old and destitute and, partially, as a protection against famine. It shows the effect of the Poor Law of the later Eighteenth Century agrarian reorganisation, the industrial revolution, Scottish urban development and the evangelical revival. This remarkably comprehensive investigation contains many revelations about the nature of Scottish social life over three centuries.

Author: R. A. Cage
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443886610
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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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.

Author: David Englander
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317883225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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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.

Author: David Monypenny
Publisher:
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Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Robert Peel Lamond
Publisher:
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Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: William Pulteney ALISON
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: George A. Mackay
Publisher:
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Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Sidney Webb
Publisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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