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.
Download or read book The Making of the Irish Poor Law 1815 43 written by Peter Gray and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Gray presents a complete scholarly account of the origins and introduction of the poor law in Ireland.
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 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 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:
Download or read book The Making of the New Poor Law written by Anthony Brundage and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Pauper Policies written by SAMANTHA A. SHAVE and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Unmarried Motherhood in the Metropolis 1700 1850 written by Samantha Williams and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.
Download or read book State Society and the Poor in Nineteenth century England written by Alan J. Kidd and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Poor Law Amendment Act and the Recent Rules and Orders of the Poor Law Commissioners With a Practical Introduction Notes and Forms written by John Frederick ARCHBOLD and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Their Own Write written by Steven King and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
Download or read book The Poor Law of Lunacy written by Peter Bartlett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent had remarkably little power. He examines the place of the county asylum movement in the midcentury poor law debates and its legal and administrative regimes. Taking the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, he explores the role of poor law officers in admission processes, and relations between them and the staff and inspectors.
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 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mother and the elderly.
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 243 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.
Download or read book The New Poor Law Amendment Act 11 12 Vict C 31 Relating to Orders of Removal Grounds of Removal and Appeals With a Practical Introduction and Notes written by John Frederick Archbold and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
