
Society and Pauperism
This is a study of the ideas and attitudes expressed in the extensive literature on poverty, pauperism and relief published in England between the 1790s and the 1830s. It describes, analyses and explains the recorded attitudes in that period to poverty as a social phenomenon.
The focus of the study is the Poor Law, the network of law and practice which in the network of law and practice which in t...
This is a study of the ideas and attitudes expressed in the extensive literature on poverty, pauperism and relief published in England between the 1790s and the 1830s. It describes, analyses and explains the recorded attitudes in that period to poverty as a social phenomenon.
The focus of the study is the Poor Law, the network of law and practice which in the network of law and practice which in t...