Download or read book From Artisans to Paupers written by David R. Green and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the impact of economic change on social polarization and the provision of welfare in 19th-century London. Presents micro-scale studies of individual neighborhoods and trades within the context of long-term economic and geographical change within the capital, linking the everyday activities of London's working class with broader and long-term processes that shaped the city's social, economic, and administrative structures. For urban, economic, and social historians as well as geographers seeking to understand rapid urban change. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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.

Download or read book From Artisans to Paupers written by David Ralph Green and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Artisan Intellectual written by Christopher Ferguson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Artisan Intellectual, Christopher Ferguson examines the life and ideas of English tailor and writer James Carter, one of countless and largely anonymous citizens whose lives dramatically transformed during Britain’s long march to modernity. Carter began his working life at age thirteen as an apprentice and continued to work as a tailor throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, first in Colchester and then in London. As the Industrial Revolution brought innovations to every aspect of British life, Carter took advantage of opportunities to push against the boundaries of his working-class background. He supplemented his income through his writing, publishing often unsigned books, articles, and poems on subjects as diverse as religion, death, nature, aesthetics, and theories of civilization. Carter’s words give us a fascinating window into the revolutionary forces that upended the world of ordinary citizens in this era and demonstrate how the changes in daily life impacted personal experiences and intellectual pursuits as well as labor practices and living and working environments. Ferguson deftly explores a forgotten tailor’s varied responses to the many transformations that produced the world’s first modern society.

Download or read book The Confinement of the Insane written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the asylum constitutes one of the most profound, and controversial, events in the history of medicine. Academics around the world have begun to direct their attention to the origins of the confinement of those deemed 'insane', exploring patient records in an attempt to understand the rise of the asylum within the wider context of social and economic change of nations undergoing modernisation. Originally published in 2003, this edited volume brings together thirteen original research papers to answer key questions in the history of asylums. What forces led to the emergence of mental hospitals in different national contexts? To what extent did patient populations vary in terms of their psychiatric profile and socio-economic background? What was the role of families, communities and the medical profession in the confinement process? This volume therefore represents a landmark study in the history of psychiatry by examining asylum confinement in a global context.

Download or read book Scoundrels and Shirkers written by Jim Silver and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-11T00:00:00Z with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scoundrels and Shirkers examines the deep relationship between capitalism and poverty in England since the 12th century. It exposes the dynamics of capitalism, from its origins in the long transition from feudalism to its current crisis under neoliberal capitalism, in producing poverty. The book, unique in the historical breadth of its focus, shows conclusively that poverty is an inevitable consequence of capitalism. In the search for profits and control of society’s economic surplus, capitalism expands, adapts and innovates, producing not only commodities and wealth but also, and necessarily, poverty. With the partial but important exception of the 1945–51 period, and to a lesser extent the time between 1906 and 1914, there has never been a serious attempt to solve poverty. Efforts have always been to manage and control the poor to prevent them from starving or rebelling; to punish and blame them for being poor; and to force them into poverty-level jobs. Any real solution would require the logic of capitalism to be deeply disrupted. While possible in theory, such a change will require massive social movements.

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Download or read book Poverty and Welfare in England 1700 1850 written by Steven King and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.

Download or read book Expelling the Poor written by Hidetaka Hirota and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Présentation de l'éditeur: "Expelling the Poor' argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control."

Download or read book The Causes and Remedies of Pauperism in the United Kingdom Considered An Inquiry Into the Causes and Remedies of Pauperism Introductory Series Being a Defence of the Principles and Conduct of the Emigration Committee Against the Charges of Mr Sadler First Series Containing Correspondence with C Poulett Thomson Etc Second Series Containing Correspondence with M Duchatel Etc Third Series Containing Letters to Sir Francis Burdett Etc Fourth Series Explanation of Mr Wilmot Horton s Bill in a Letter and Queries Addressed to N W Senior With His Answers Etc written by Robert John Wilmot HORTON (Right Hon. Sir) and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Inquiry into the causes and remedies of Pauperism First Series containing correspondence with C Poulett Thomson Second Series containing correspondence with M Duchatel Third Series containing Letters to Sir Francis Burdett upon Pauperism in Ireland Fourth Series Explanation of Mr W H s bill in a Letter and Queries addressed to N W Senior with his Answers etc and an Appendix written by Robert John Wilmot HORTON (Right Hon. Sir) and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Best Modes of Representing Accurately by Statistical Returns the Pressure and Progress of the Causes of Mortality Amongst Different Classes of the Community and Amongst the Populations of Different Districts and Countries written by Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Statistical Society of London written by Statistical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal, demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.

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Download or read book First and Second Report s of the Commissioners for Inquiring Into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts written by Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Sanitary conditions among the laboring classes of England and Wales.