Download or read book Overseers of the Poor written by John Gilliom and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the views and experiences of low-income American mothers who live everyday with the advanced surveillance capacity of the modern welfare state. In their pursuit of food, health care, and shelter for their families, they are watched, analyzed, assessed, monitored, checked, and reevaluated in an ongoing process involving supercomputers, caseworkers, fraud control agents, grocers, and neighbors. They know surveillance. [preface].
Download or read book The First Century of Welfare written by Jonathan Healey and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century. Drawing on thousands of individual petitions for poor relief, presented by paupers themselves to magistrates, it peers into the social and economic world of England's marginal people. Taken together, these records present a vivid and sobering picture of the daily lives and struggles of the poor. We can see how their family life, their relations with their kin and their neighbours, and the dictates of contemporary gender norms conditioned their lives. We can also see how they experienced illness and physical and mental disability; and the ways in which real people's lives could be devastated by dearth, trade depression, and the destruction of the Civil Wars. But the picture is not just one of poor folk tossed by the tidesof fortune. It is also one of agency: about the strategies of economic survival the poor adopted, particularly in the context of a developing industrial economy, of the support they gained from their relatives and neighbours, andof their willingness to engage with England's developing system of social welfare to ensure that they and their families did not go hungry. In this book, an intensely human picture surfaces of what it was like to experience poverty at a time when the seeds of state social welfare were being planted. JONATHAN HEALEY is University Lecturer in English Local and Social History and Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Overseers of the Poor of the City of Boston written by Boston. Board of Overseers of the Poor and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overseers of the Poor of Haverhill Mass Records written by Haverhill (Mass.). Overseers of the poor and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters sent to the Overseers of the Poor of Haverhill, Mass. from the Overseers of the Poor of Greenfield, Mass., 29 Jan. 1838, and Bradford, Mass., 15 July 1843, requesting aid for indigents, currently under their care, who are legal residents of Haverhill.
Download or read book A Few Words to the Poor and to Overseers on the New Poor Law written by Archer CLIVE and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Containing the Poor written by Silvia Marina Arrom and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of poverty in Mexico City, based on a study of a poorhouse designed to incarcerate and train "deserving" beggars to be productive and responsible citizens.
Download or read book The Culture of Commerce in England 1660 1720 written by Natasha Glaisyer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the Restoration and the South Sea Bubble - was dramatically transformed by the massive cost of fighting wars, and, significantly, a huge increase in the re-export trade. This book seeks to ask how commerce was legitimated, promoted, fashioned, defined and understood in this period of spectacular commercial and financial 'revolution'. It examines the packaging and portrayal of commerce, and of commercial knowledge, positioning itself between studies of merchant culture on the one hand and of the commercialisation of society on the other. It focuses on four main areas: the Royal Exchange where the London trading community gathered; sermons preached before mercantile audiences; periodicals and newspapers concerned with trade; and commercial didactic literature. Dr NATASHA GLAISYER teaches in the Department of History at the University of York.
Download or read book Report of the Committee of the City Council on the Relations of the Overseers of the Poor written by Boston. City Council. Committee on the Relations of the Overseers of the Poor and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns the relations of power between the City Council and the Overseers of the Poor in Boston and recommends that the Board of Overseers be subject to the general superintendence, authority, and direction of the City Council.
Download or read book The poor in England 1700 1850 written by Alannah Tomkins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Eighteenth century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor written by Colonial Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The records constitute the earliest and most complete set of records pertaining to poor relief in early America. The Overseers of the Poor was a board of private citizens elected by the town meeting who were responsible for distinguishing between the ?deserving? and ?undeserving? poor. Being mostly wealthy merchants, the Overseers personally advanced the money for the deserving poor during most of the year and were then reimbursed by the town. Undeserving poor were relegated to workhouses. Given the face-to-face quality of this system of welfare, these records provide a wealth of hard to find detail about the nature of poverty in the eighteenth century, including details on both the feminization of poverty (related to waves of widows created by repeated wars) and the callous practice of freeing slaves once age or infirmity reduced their usefulness.
Download or read book On Assistance to the Poor written by Juan Luis Vives and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteenth-century humanist Juan Luis Vives sought to find ways to alleviate the sufferings of the poor of Bruges, dealing with problems and presenting solutions that sound remarkably familiar to twentieth-century urban ears.
Download or read book An Ease for Overseers of the poore abstracted from the Statutes written by and published by . This book was released on 1601 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual for the Use of the Overseers of the Poor of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. State Board of Lunacy and Charity and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing the Lives of the English Poor 1750s 1830s written by Steven King and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the largest collection of parochial correspondence ever assembled. Investigating the way that people experienced and shaped the English and Welsh welfare system through the use of almost 26,000 pauper letters and the correspondence of overseers in forty-eight counties, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s reconstructs the process by which the poor claimed, extended, or defended their parochial allowances. Challenging preconceptions about literacy, power, social structure, and the agency of ordinary people, these stories suggest that advocates, officials, and the poor shared a common linguistic register and an understanding of how far welfare decisions could be contested and negotiated. King shifts attention away from traditional approaches to construct an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of poor law administration and popular writing at the turn of the nineteenth century. At a time when the western European welfare model is under sustained threat, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s takes us back to its deepest roots to demonstrate that the signature of a strong welfare system is malleability.
Download or read book Administration of the Poor Laws written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of the Overseers of the Poor Marion County West Virginia written by Marion County (W. Va.). Overseers of the Poor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
