English Poor Law History
Author: Sidney Webb
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13:
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The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
Author: Paul Slack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780521557856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 033368270X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrundage examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early 18th century to its termination in 1930.
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914
Author: David Englander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1317883225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Welfare's Forgotten Past
Author: Lorie Charlesworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1135179638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat ‘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.
Poor Relief in England, 1350–1600
Author: Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1139503650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 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:
Published: 2018-11
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ISBN-13: 9781526135674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Welfare in Pre-industrial England
Author: Paul A. Fideler
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 2006-03-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0333688953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution. The study: - incorporates the latest scholarship - weaves together social, economic, demographic, medical, political, religious and ideological history - offers fresh treatments of the contextual importance of Christian moral theology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, humanist and protestant thought in the sixteenth century and neo-Stoic benevolence and political arithmetic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - explores two competing approaches to social welfare: societas (voluntary, rooted in custom and tradition) and civitas (mandatory, embedded in policy and law) - concludes with a detailed examination of the first histories of social welfare in England undertaken in the late eighteenth century.
Vagrancy in Law and Practice Under the Old Poor Law
Author: Audrey Eccles
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1409404870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on extensive archival research and in-depth study of both statute law and local administrative records, this book examines the complexities of vagrancy law and the realities of its practice during the long eighteenth century. As the first full-length study of vagrancy law and practice in the eighteenth century, this book will constitute an essential item in any collection of books on the old poor law.
An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850
Author: George R. Boyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-06-29
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0521364795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the political motivation, regional variations and the economic and demographic impact of the Poor Law in the rural south of England.
