Martin Daunton (ed.)

Charity, Self-Interest And Welfare In Britain

Herausgeber: Daunton, Martin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These essays present a statement on the long-term development of welfare policy in Britain. Relating to current issues such as the cost of pensions, this work examines provisions for the poor, infirm and aged over four centuries of British history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781857285369
• ISBN-10: 1857285360
• Artikelnr.: 35738374

Autorenporträt

Martin Daunton

Inhaltsangabe

The Neale Colloquium in British History
Notes on contributors
1 Introduction
2 Charity
self-interest and welfare: reflections from demographic and family history
3 Some recent trends in the history of charity
4 Charity and poor relief in early modern Italy
5 Aged and impotent: parish relief of the aged poor in early modern Suffolk
6 Old people and their families in the English past
7 The "mixed economy of welfare" in early modern England: assessments of the options from Hale to Malthus (c. 1683-1803)
8 "Grasping gratitude": charity and hospital finance in late-Victorian London
9 Women
social work and social welfare in twentieth-century Britain: from (unpaid) influence to (paid) oblivion?
10 Risk
redistribution and social welfare in Britain from the poor law to Beveridge
11 Some concluding reflections
Index