England's Road to Social Security
England's Road to Social Security

Author: Karl De Schweinitz

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1512815497

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Old Poor Law in Scotland
Old Poor Law in Scotland

Author: Mitchison Rosalind Mitchison

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1474471064

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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.* Covers the whole life of the Poor Law in Scotland* Based entirely on pioneering research of parish records and a wide range of other records* Contains numerous revelations about the nature of Scottish society over three centuries