The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Derek Fraser
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes a chapter on Scotland.
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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.
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain
Author: David Englander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
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.
Pauper Capital
Author: David R. Green
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-13
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1317082923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew measures, if any, could claim to have had a greater impact on British society than the poor law. As a comprehensive system of relieving those in need, the poor law provided relief for a significant proportion of the population but influenced the behaviour of a much larger group that lived at or near the margins of poverty. It touched the lives of countless numbers of individuals not only as paupers but also as ratepayers, guardians, officials and magistrates. This system underwent significant change in the nineteenth century with the shift from the old to the new poor law. The extent to which changes in policy anticipated new legislation is a key question and is here examined in the context of London. Rapid population growth and turnover, the lack of personal knowledge between rich and poor, and the close proximity of numerous autonomous poor law authorities created a distinctly metropolitan context for the provision of relief. This work provides the first detailed study of the poor law in London during the period leading up to and after the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources the book focuses explicitly on the ways in which those involved with the poor law - both as providers and recipients - negotiated the provision of relief. In the context of significant urban change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, it analyses the poor law as a system of institutions and explores the material and political processes that shaped relief policies.
Sickness in the Workhouse
Author: Alistair Ritch
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1580469752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage.
State, Society and the Poor
Author: Alan Kidd
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 1999-07-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0333632532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday 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.
Politics, Pauperism and Power in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Author: Virginia Crossman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719073779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work will be essential reading for social and political historians of nineteenth-century Ireland. It is the first academic study to explore the meanings of poverty, destitution and respectability in post-famine Ireland through the institution of the poor law, and is an original in content and interpretation. Previous works have focussed either on the relief system or on political developments. This book analyses poor law administration from a social and a political perspective. There is currently renewed interest in the English poor law of 1834, on which the Irish poor law was modelled. This book will provide historians of poverty and welfare, with an important comparative dimension
Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
Author: Vivienne Richmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1107042275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.
English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Caroline Sheridan Norton
Publisher:
Published: 1854
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssay on the legal status of women in British law and her own personal experience with leaving her husband in 1836 and the legal aftermath. Pages 18-21 discuss legal cases involving enslaved persons in British colonies and the United States.
The Workhouse System 1834-1929
Author: M. A. Crowther
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-17
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1317236823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929. At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings – housing all paupers under one roof – became institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term care. Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but a forerunner of many of today’s social institutions.
