Author: Sidney Webb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
English Poor Law History
Author: Sidney Webb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Solidarities of Strangers
Author: Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521572613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A study of English policies toward the poor from the 1600s to the present, showing how clients and officials negotiated welfare settlements.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521572613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A study of English policies toward the poor from the 1600s to the present, showing how clients and officials negotiated welfare settlements.
The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
Author: Paul Slack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521557856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521557856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
The English Poor Laws 1700-1930
Author: Anthony Brundage
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 033368270X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brundage examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early 18th century to its termination in 1930.
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 033368270X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brundage examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early 18th century to its termination in 1930.
Welfare's Forgotten Past
Author: Lorie Charlesworth
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914
Author: David Englander
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Poor Relief in England, 1350–1600
Author: Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139503650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Between the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to trace developments across that time span, focuses on three types of assistance: licensed begging and the solicitation of charitable alms; hospitals and almshouses for the bedridden and elderly; and the aid given by parishes. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief. The study highlights the creativity of local people in responding to poverty, cooperation between national levels of government, the problems of fraud and negligence, and mounting concern with proper supervision and accounting. This ground-breaking work challenges existing accounts of the Poor Laws, showing that they addressed problems with forms of aid already in use rather than creating a new system of relief.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139503650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Between the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to trace developments across that time span, focuses on three types of assistance: licensed begging and the solicitation of charitable alms; hospitals and almshouses for the bedridden and elderly; and the aid given by parishes. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief. The study highlights the creativity of local people in responding to poverty, cooperation between national levels of government, the problems of fraud and negligence, and mounting concern with proper supervision and accounting. This ground-breaking work challenges existing accounts of the Poor Laws, showing that they addressed problems with forms of aid already in use rather than creating a new system of relief.
Pauper Policies
Author: SAMANTHA A. SHAVE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526135674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526135674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Crisis of the Old Poor Law in England, 1795-1834
Author: Peter Dunkley
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A History of the English Poor Law
Author: George Nicholls
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description