The poor in England 1700–1850
The poor in England 1700–1850

Author: Alannah Tomkins

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-07-30

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1526137860

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase ‘economy of makeshifts’ has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. In The poor of England some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. The essays attempt to explain how and when the poor secured access to these makeshifts and suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English ‘economy of makeshifts’ with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.

The Poor in England 1700-1850
The Poor in England 1700-1850

Author: Alannah Tomkins

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780719080432

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This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase "economy of makeshifts" has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. In The poor of England some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilization of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. The essays attempt to explain how and when the poor secured access to these makeshifts and suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English "economy of makeshifts" with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.

Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850
Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850

Author: Steven King

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2000-12-15

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780719049408

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As the Blair government launches a new campaign against poverty, the notion of “the deserving and undeserving poor” raises it head again in the media. The Poor Law, particularly the Old/New Poor Law at the junction of the 18th and 19th centuries in England is again the focus of attention. This book provides the first accessible and comprehensive overview of the literature on poverty and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700-1850.

Accommodating Poverty
Accommodating Poverty

Author: J. McEwan

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780230542426

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This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century.

Unmarried Motherhood in the Metropolis, 1700–1850
Unmarried Motherhood in the Metropolis, 1700–1850

Author: Samantha Williams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 3319733206

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In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.

Accommodating Poverty
Accommodating Poverty

Author: J. McEwan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0230304702

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This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century.

Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850
Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850

Author: Penelope Lane

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1843830779

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The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies that range across time, region and occupation. Topics include the changing nature of women's work, customary norms, and women and the East India Company.

Women's History
Women's History

Author: Hannah Barker

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780415291767

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A wide-ranging, thematic survey of women's history in Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with chapters written by both well-established writers and new and dynamic scholars in a thorough and well-balanced selection.

Society and Economy in Modern Britain 1700-1850
Society and Economy in Modern Britain 1700-1850

Author: Richard Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1134982771

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For both contemporaries and later historians the Industrial Revolution is viewed as a turning point' in modern British history. There is no doubt that change occurred, but what was the nature of that change and how did affect rural and urban society? Beginning with an examination of the nature of history and Britain in 1700, this volume focuses on the economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Unlike many previous textbooks on the same period, it emphasizes British history, and deals with developments in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in their own right. It is the emphasis on the diversity, not the uniformity of experience, on continuities as well as change in this crucial period of development, which makes this volume distinctive. In his companion title Richard Brown completes his examination of the period and looks at the changes that took place in Britain's political system and in its religious affiliations.

The Enlightened Economy
The Enlightened Economy

Author: Joel Mokyr

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300124552

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"In a vigorous discussion, which goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics and society, Mokyr argues that the bases of the emergence of modern economic growth in Britain are to be found in what key players knew and believed, and how those convictions affected their economic behaviour. The belief in progress, coupled with the strategies to bring it about led Britain, and eventually most of the western world, into the modern era." "With a remarkably wide range of reference, and covering sectors of the British economy often neglected, this masterful book both synthesizes existing scholarship and provides a wholly new perspective for understanding Britain's economic development in the ageof the Industrial Revolution." --Book Jacket.