The English Poor Law System Past And Present
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Author | : Paul Slack |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1995-09-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521557856 |
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Author | : Paul Felix Aschrott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Old age pensions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lorie Charlesworth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1135179638 |
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 | : Peter Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443886610 |
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? How should and could the poor navigate a welfare system which was essentially discretionary? What agency could the poor have and how did ordinary officials understand their respective duties to the poor and to taxpayers? And how far was the state successful in introducing, monitoring and maintaining a uniform welfare system which matched the intent and letter of the law? This volume takes these core questions as a starting point. Synthesising a rich body of sources ranging from pauper letters through to legal cases in the highest courts in the land, this book offers a re-evaluation of the Old and New Poor Laws. Challenging traditional chronological dichotomies, it evaluates and puts to use new sources, and questions a range of long-standing assumptions about the experience of being poor. In doing so, the compelling voices of the poor move to centre stage and provide a human dimension to debates about rights, obligations and duties under the Old and New Poor Laws.
Author | : Sidney Webb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Local government |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony Brundage |
Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 033368270X |
Brundage examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early 18th century to its termination in 1930.
Author | : Sir George Nicholls |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315467712 |
First published in 1854, this comprehensive work charts over three volumes the history of poor relief in England from the Saxon period through to the establishment of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 and its reception. This edition, updated in 1898, also includes a biography of the author, Sir George Nicholls. Volume III examines poor relief from 1834 to 1898. This set of books will be of interest to those studying the history of the British welfare state and social policy.
Author | : Lorie Charlesworth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135179646 |
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 | : Sir George Nicholls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Poor laws |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Nicholls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Poor laws |
ISBN | : |