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Book Synopsis Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914 by : David Englander
Download or read book Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914 written by David Englander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Book Synopsis Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain by : David Englander
Download or read book Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain written by David Englander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Book Synopsis The Workhouse System 1834-1929 by : M. A. Crowther
Download or read book The Workhouse System 1834-1929 written by M. A. Crowther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First 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.
Download or read book Pauper Capital written by David R. Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few 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.
Book Synopsis Report of the Poor Law Commissioners by : Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners
Download or read book Report of the Poor Law Commissioners written by Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works by : Rena Lohan
Download or read book Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works written by Rena Lohan and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of the Office of Public Works more than 30 years old have been transferred to the National Archives, Dublin. The types of public works records are described, then listed with call numbers.
Book Synopsis English Poor Law History by : Sidney Webb
Download or read book English Poor Law History written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century by : Derek Fraser
Download or read book The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century written by Derek Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a chapter on Scotland.
Book Synopsis Welfare's Forgotten Past by : Lorie Charlesworth
Download or read book Welfare's Forgotten Past written by Lorie Charlesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That ‘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.
Book Synopsis English Poor Law Policy by : Sidney Webb
Download or read book English Poor Law Policy written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850 by : George R. Boyer
Download or read book An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850 written by George R. Boyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-06-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political motivation, regional variations and the economic and demographic impact of the Poor Law in the rural south of England.
Book Synopsis Life in a Victorian Workhouse by : Alan Gallop
Download or read book Life in a Victorian Workhouse written by Alan Gallop and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like in a Victorian Workhouse? Was the food really as bad as we imagine? Take a step back in time with Alan Gallop and ask yourself if you could have survived in such harsh conditions.
Book Synopsis Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners by : Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners
Download or read book Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners written by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 by : Paul Slack
Download or read book The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 written by Paul Slack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Book Synopsis Poverty, Gender and Life-cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 by : Samantha Williams
Download or read book Poverty, Gender and Life-cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 written by Samantha Williams and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a case study the lived experience of poor families in two Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it with the perspectives of other participants in parish politics, from the magistracy to the vestry, and from overseers to village ratepayers. It explores the problem of rising unemployment, the provision of parish make-work schemes, charitable provision and the wider makeshift economy, together with the attitudes of the ratepayers. That gender and life-cycle were crucial features of poverty is demonstrated: the lone mother and her dependent children and the elderly dominated the relief rolls. Poor relief might have been relatively generous but it was not pervasive - child allowances, in particular, were restricted in duration and value - and it by no means approximated to the income of other labouring families. Poor families must either have had access to additional resources, or led meagre lives. Samantha Williams is a university lecturer in local and regional history at the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow in History, Girton College, Cambridge.
Book Synopsis A History of the English Poor Law by : George Nicholls
Download or read book A History of the English Poor Law written by George Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act by : Sidney Webb
Download or read book English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act written by Sidney Webb and published by London ; New York : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1906 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
