Annals of the Poor, 1830
Annals of the Poor, 1830

Author: Legh Richmond

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-20

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780365250685

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Excerpt from Annals of the Poor, 1830: Containing the Dairyman's Daughter, the Negro Servant, and Young Cottager, &C, &C The Young Cottager, and the Negro Servant, are reprinted without alteration, from the last edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Annals of the Labouring Poor
Annals of the Labouring Poor

Author: K. D. M. Snell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-04-02

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780521335584

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Levels of employment, wage rates, welfare relief, sexual divisions of labor, apprenticeship patterns and seasonal economic fluctuations are included in this reassessment of the standard of living of rural labor during this period of England's industrialization.

State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

Author: Alan Kidd

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1999-07-08

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1349276138

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Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or coped with poverty without recourse to the state. The Poor Law after 1834 offered little more than a 'safety net' for the poorest, and much welfare was organised through charitable societies, self-help institutions and mutual-aid networks. Rather than look for the origins of modern provision, the author casts a searching light on the practices, ideology and outcomes of nineteenth-century welfare. This original and stimulating study, based upon a wealth of scholarship, is essential reading for all students of poverty and welfare. It also contains much to interest a wider readership.

Habits of Compassion
Habits of Compassion

Author: Maureen Fitzgerald

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0252047036

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The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the early twentieth century. Maureen Fitzgerald argues that their championing of the rights of the poor—especially poor women—resulted in an explosion of state-supported services and programs. Parting from Protestant belief in meager and means-tested aid, Irish Catholic nuns argued for an approach based on compassion for the poor. Fitzgerald positions the nuns' activism as resistance to Protestantism's cultural hegemony. As she shows, Roman Catholic nuns offered strong and unequivocal moral leadership in condemning those who punished the poor for their poverty and unmarried women for sexual transgression. Fitzgerald also delves into the nuns' own communities, from the class-based hierarchies within the convents to the political power they wielded within the city. That power, amplified by an alliance with the local Irish Catholic political machine, allowed the women to expand public charities in the city on an unprecedented scale.