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Author : E. M. Hampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Charities
ISBN : OCLC:10871174
Author : Ethel Mary Hampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
ISBN : LCCN:34033810
Author : Ethel Mary Hampson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 110800234X
First published in 1934, this historical survey of the application of the Poor Law in Cambridgeshire covers the period from its codification under Queen Elizabeth I to the Amendment Act of 1834. Resulting from the author's extensive analysis of parish records, accounts and court proceedings, the examination of a largely agricultural county marks it out from many other such studies. Cambridgeshire is a unique area; although under a strong metropolitan influence due to its geographical proximity to London and its links to the capital via the University of Cambridge, it contains few towns or large villages. The scattered population meant efforts to group areas for the purposes of administration during the period in question were largely unsuccessful. Instead, E.M. Hampson's study reveals that local autonomy led to large variations in the application of the Poor Law.
Author : Ethel Mary Hampson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Samantha Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838661
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.
Author : M. A. Crowther
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317236818
First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929. At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings – housing all paupers under one roof – became institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term care. Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but a forerunner of many of today’s social institutions.
Author : Jonathan Healey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843839569
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.
Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317253808
'A rich and thoughtful book.' History 'A magnificent empirical resource accompanied by a subtle and powerful framework of interpretation...It is not often that historical scholarship is so effectively harnessed to the sociological imagination.' American Journal of Sociology 'This is a masterpiece of social movement analysis by an author at the peak of his analytical powers making full use of one of the most extensive evidence files available.' Mobilization Between 1750 and 1840 ordinary British people abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other sanctioned routines of social movement politics. The change created - for the first time anywhere - mass participation in national politics. Charles Tilly is the first to address the depth and significance of the transformations in popular collective action during this period. The author elucidates four distinct phases in the transformation to mass political participation and identifies the forms and occasions for collective action that characterized and dominated each. He provides rich descriptions, not only of a wide variety of popular protests, but also of such influential figures as John Wilkes, Lord George Gordon, William Cobbett, and Daniel O'Connell.
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557852
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Author : Lorie Charlesworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135179649
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.
Author : J. McEwan,P. Sharpe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230304703
This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century.
Author : Steven King
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719049407
As the Blair government launches a new campaign against poverty, the notion of “the deserving and undeserving poor” raises it head again in the media. The Poor Law, particularly the Old/New Poor Law at the junction of the 18th and 19th centuries in England is again the focus of attention. This book provides the first accessible and comprehensive overview of the literature on poverty and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700-1850.
Author : Ruth Wallis Herndon,John E. Murray
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801457524
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage. As Children Bound to Labor makes clear, pauper apprenticeship was an important source of labor in early America. The economic, social, and political development of the colonies and then the states cannot be told properly without taking them into account. Binding out pauper apprentices was a widespread practice throughout the colonies from Massachusetts to South Carolina-poor, illegitimate, orphaned, abandoned, or abused children were raised to adulthood in a legal condition of indentured servitude. Most of these children were without resources and often without advocates. Local officials undertook the responsibility for putting such children in family situations where the child was expected to work, while the master provided education and basic living needs. The authors of Children Bound to Labor show the various ways in which pauper apprentices were important to the economic, social, and political structure of early America, and how the practice shaped such key relations as master-servant, parent-child, and family-state in the young republic. In considering the practice in English, Dutch, and French communities in North America from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, Children Bound to Labor even suggests that this widespread practice was notable as a positive means of maintaining social stability and encouraging economic development.
Author : K. D. M. Snell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521335582
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.
Author : Jonathan Reinarz,Leonard Schwarz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464482
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.