An Economic History Of The English Poor Law 1750 1850

Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521364795

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An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850 by George R. Boyer Pdf

During the last third of the eighteenth century, most parishes in rural southern England adopted policies providing poor relief outside workhouses to unemployed and underemployed able-bodied labourers. The debate over the economic effects of 'outdoor' relief payments to able-bodied workers has continued for over 200 years. This book examines the economic role of the Poor Law in the rural south of England. It presents a model of the agricultural labour market that provides explanations for the widespread adoption of outdoor relief policies, the persistence of such policies until the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834, and the sharp regional differences in the administration of relief. The book challenges many commonly held beliefs about the Poor Law and concludes that the adoption of outdoor relief for able-bodied paupers was a rational response by politically dominant farmers to changes in the rural economic environment.

Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557852

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The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 by Paul Slack Pdf

A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.

Author : Nicholas Deakin,Catherine Jones Finer,Bob Matthews
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415262887

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Welfare and the State by Nicholas Deakin,Catherine Jones Finer,Bob Matthews Pdf

Author : Anthony Brundage
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0333682718

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The English Poor Laws 1700-1930 by Anthony Brundage Pdf

The English Poor Laws examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early eighteenth century to its termination in 1930. The book traces the law's development from a localized measure of poor relief designed primarily for rural communities to an increasingly centralized system attempting to grapple with the urgent crises of urban poverty. The deterrent workhouse, medical care, education, assisted emigration, family maintenance, vagrancy and the relationship of the poor laws to private charity are some of the topics covered. The perspectives and reactions of the poor to the workhouse system, as well as to changing relief policies have also been highlighted. This includes the sometimes spirited opposition of the poor to the oppressive features of the law. The relationship of the poor laws to economic development, in both the agrarian and industrial sectors, is also explored, as are the connections of changing relief policies to wider currents of intellectual and social life.

Author : Larry Patriquin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230591387

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Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860 by Larry Patriquin Pdf

This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.

Author : George Nicholls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000253603

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A History of the English Poor Law by George Nicholls Pdf

Author : Steven King,Alannah Tomkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0719061598

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The Poor in England, 1700-1850 by Steven King,Alannah Tomkins Pdf

This study explores the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The chapters examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilization of kinship support, crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households.

Author : Martin J. Daunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034257231

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Progress and Poverty by Martin J. Daunton Pdf

Revisionist analysis

Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217116

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The Winding Road to the Welfare State by George R. Boyer Pdf

How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state? The Winding Road to the Welfare State investigates the evolution of living standards and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and provides insights into how British working-class households coped with economic insecurity. George Boyer examines the retrenchment in Victorian poor relief, the Liberal Welfare Reforms, and the beginnings of the postwar welfare state, and he describes how workers altered spending and saving methods based on changing government policies. From the cutting back of the Poor Law after 1834 to Parliament’s abrupt about-face in 1906 with the adoption of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, Boyer offers new explanations for oscillations in Britain’s social policies and how these shaped worker well-being. The Poor Law’s increasing stinginess led skilled manual workers to adopt self-help strategies, but this was not a feasible option for low-skilled workers, many of whom continued to rely on the Poor Law into old age. In contrast, the Liberal Welfare Reforms were a major watershed, marking the end of seven decades of declining support for the needy. Concluding with the Beveridge Report and Labour’s social policies in the late 1940s, Boyer shows how the Liberal Welfare Reforms laid the foundations for a national social safety net. A sweeping look at economic pressures after the Industrial Revolution, The Winding Road to the Welfare State illustrates how British welfare policy waxed and waned over the course of a century.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317862093

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The Birth of Industrial Britain by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain. The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britain’s transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation. This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive range of pedagogical material to support the text, including a Glossary of terms, people and parliamentary acts, new primary source documents and a brand new Chronology and ‘Who’s Who’ section. The Birth of Industrial Britain provides an essential up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society for students at all levels.

Author : François Crouzet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521088712

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The First Industrialists by François Crouzet Pdf

This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of the founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.

Author : Sir George Nicholls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Poor law
ISBN : OCLC:1110338627

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A History of the English Poor Law by Sir George Nicholls Pdf

Author : Hugh Lancelot Beales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030006766911

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The Industrial Revolution by Hugh Lancelot Beales Pdf

Author : Jonathan Reinarz,Leonard Schwarz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464482

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Medicine and the Workhouse by Jonathan Reinarz,Leonard Schwarz Pdf

This text examines the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : K. D. M. Snell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521335582

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Annals of the Labouring Poor by K. D. M. Snell Pdf

Levels of employment, wage rates, welfare relief, sexual divisions of labor, apprenticeship patterns and seasonal economic fluctuations are included in this reassessment of the standard of living of rural labor during this period of England's industrialization.