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 Protesting about Pauperism written by Elizabeth T. Hurren and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented to try to deal with it contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular being the crusade against outdoor relief, during which central government sought to halt all welfare payments at home. Via a close case study of Brixworth union in Northamptonshire, which offers an unusually rich corpus of primary material and evidence, the author looks at what happened to those impoverished men and women who struggled to live independently in a world-without-welfare outside the workhouse. She retraces the experiences of elderly paupers evicted from almshouses, of the children of the aged poor prosecuted for parental maintenance, of dying paupers who were refused medical care in their homes, and of women begging for funeral costs in as attempt to prevent the bodies of their loved ones being taken for dissection by anatomists. She then shows how increasing democratisation gave the labouring poor the means to win control of the poor law. ELIZABETH T. HURREN is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Past and Present.

Download or read book From Pauperism to Poverty written by Karel Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, From Pauperism to Poverty consists of seven essays, three of which focus on the English poor law between 1800 and 1914 and four of which examine texts of social investigation by Mayhew, Engels, Booth and Rowntree. Rather than making a specialist contribution to the history of social thought and policy, the essays raise general questions about current ways of writing history and alternative analyses of specific texts or institutions are developed. In doing so, the previous histories of the relief of pauperism and the discovery of poverty are revised at many points. Most notably, it is demonstrated for the first time that relief to unemployed men was virtually abolished after 1850. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare and poverty.

Download or read book The Solidarities of Strangers written by Lynn Hollen Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of English policies toward the poor from the 1600s to the present, showing how clients and officials negotiated welfare settlements.

Download or read book Pauperism the Poor Laws written by Thomas Ivory and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pauperism and Poor Laws written by Robert Pashley (Barrister.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Power and Pauperism written by Felix Driver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy.

Download or read book Sickness in the Workhouse written by Alistair Ritch and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sickness 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.

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:

Download or read book Pauperism Charity Poor Laws written by Joshua Harrison Stallard and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern Pauperism and the Scotch Poor Laws Including Hints for the Amendment of the Poor Law Act of 1845 written by George King (F.S.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thoughts and observations upon pauperism poor laws medical relief and the prevention of crime written by William FERGUSSON (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pauperism and the poor laws lects delivered in 1869 70 with kindred papers ed by T Ivory written by Chalmers association and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pauperism Charity and Poor Laws Being an inquiry into the present state of the poorer classes in the metropolis the resources and effects of charity Read before the Social Science Association February 17th October 1st and December 21st 1868 written by J. S. STALLARD and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick written by Christopher Hamlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.

Download or read book Pauperism and the Poor Laws or our sinking population and rapidly increasing burdens practically considered written by James BEGG (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Almost Worthy written by Brent Ruswick and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity -- "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace -- Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor -- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism -- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement -- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.