Steve King

Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850

A regional perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the literature on poverty, communal welfare systems and alternative welfare strategies. Offers a new perspective on how we should conceptualise poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.. Indicates the need for new directions in the study of poverty and welfare using previously unpublished results form one of the biggest poor law databases in existence.. Argues that welfare historians have paid too little attention to the complexities of defining and measuring poverty, and a variety of primary source material is used to reconsider the extent of poverty in the period 1700-1850.. Provides the first systematic attempt to discuss the regional dimensions of the welfare system in an English context. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780719049408
• ISBN-10: 0719049407
• Artikelnr.: 25692652

Autorenporträt

Steven King is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures, tables and maps Preface 1. Introduction 2. Poverty and
welfare: the legal framework 3. The welfare debate 4. Defining and
measuring poverty 5. Alternative worlds of poverty 6. Welfare in the south
and east, 1700-1820 7. Welfare in the north and west, 1700-1820 8. Welfare
under the new poor law, 1821-1850 9. Conclusion: old and new perspectives
in welfare history Appendix one - Places Appendix two - A legal chronology
of the poor laws Bibliography Index