| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Obligation, entitlement and dispute : navigating the English Poor Laws 1600-1900 / Peter Jones and Steven King -- "The charity of our life and healthful years"? : approaches to inter-vivos charitable giving to the poor in the metropolis 1600-1720 / Jeremy Boulton -- From petition to pauper letter : the development of an epistolary form / Peter Jones and Steven King -- Families, wheat prices and the allowance cycle : poverty and poor relief in the agricultural community of Ardleigh 1794-1801 / Thomas Sokoll -- Poverty, kinship support and the case of Ellen Parker 1818-1827 / Alannah Tomkins -- Widows, work and wantonness : pauper letters and the boundaries of entitlement under the Old Poor Law / Peter Jones -- Parish women : maternity and the limitations of maiden settlement in England 1662-1834 / Pamela Sharpe -- The geography of poor relief in rural Oxfordshire 1775-1832 / John Langton -- The rights of the poor and the role of the law : the impact of pauper appeals to the summary courts 1750-1834 / Peter King -- Rights, duties and practice in the transition between the Old and New Poor Laws 1820s-1860s / Steven King -- "World without welfare" : pauper perspectives on medical care under the late-Victorian poor law 1870-1900 / Elizabeth Hurren |
| Summary |
With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often thought of as essentially "modern": How should the state support those in work but who do not earn enough to get by? How should communities deal with in-migrants and immigrants who might have made only the lightest contribution to the economic and social lives of those communities? What basket of welfare rights ought to be attached to the status of citizen? How might people prove, maintain and pass on a sense of "belonging" to a place? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poor laws -- England
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Poor laws -- Wales
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Poor laws -- England -- History
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Poor laws -- Wales -- History
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Poverty -- history
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Poverty -- legislation & jurisprudence
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History, 17th Century
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History, 18th Century
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History, 19th Century
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Social Conditions -- history
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Social Welfare -- history
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Medicine
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Poor laws
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Wales. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80014574
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England |
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Wales https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014852 |
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England
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Wales
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Peter, editor
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King, Steven, 1966- editor
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| ISBN |
9781443886611 |
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1443886610 |
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