Obligation Entitlement And Dispute Under The English Poor Laws
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Obligation Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws
Author | : Peter Jones,Steven King |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781443886611 |
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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.
The English Poor Law 1531 1782
Author | : Paul Slack |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1995-09-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521557852 |
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A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
The Parish and the Union Or The Poor and the Poor Laws Under the Old System and the New
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the New Poor Law Amendment Act |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Poor |
ISBN | : UOM:39015068047714 |
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The English Poor Law System Past and Present
Author | : Paul Felix Aschrott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Old age pensions |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044011434974 |
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Writing the Lives of the English Poor 1750s 1830s
Author | : Steven King |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773556508 |
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From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the largest collection of parochial correspondence ever assembled. Investigating the way that people experienced and shaped the English and Welsh welfare system through the use of almost 26,000 pauper letters and the correspondence of overseers in forty-eight counties, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s reconstructs the process by which the poor claimed, extended, or defended their parochial allowances. Challenging preconceptions about literacy, power, social structure, and the agency of ordinary people, these stories suggest that advocates, officials, and the poor shared a common linguistic register and an understanding of how far welfare decisions could be contested and negotiated. King shifts attention away from traditional approaches to construct an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of poor law administration and popular writing at the turn of the nineteenth century. At a time when the western European welfare model is under sustained threat, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s takes us back to its deepest roots to demonstrate that the signature of a strong welfare system is malleability.
In Their Own Write
Author | : Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780228015369 |
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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.
A History of the English Poor Law
Author | : Sir George Nicholls |
Publsiher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1290901929 |
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The English Poor Law System
Author | : P F. Aschrott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1421282089 |
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