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Pauper policies : poor law practice in England, 1780-1850 / Samantha A. Shave.
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Shave, Samantha A. (Samantha Anne)
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English
Published/Created
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
©2017
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xii, 300 pages : illustrations, map, plan ; 23 cm
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Poor
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Services for
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England
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History
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19th century
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Poor laws
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England
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History
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18th century
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Poor laws
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England
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History
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19th century
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Medicine
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History
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18th century
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England
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Social conditions
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18th century
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England
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Social conditions
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19th century
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Summary note
Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and implementation of 'enabling acts' at the end of the old poor laws; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. Pointing towards a new direction in the study of poor law administration, it examines how people, both those in positions of power and the poor, could shape pauper policies. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.
Contents
Introduction: pauper policies
A policy process approach to the poor laws
Gilbert's Act: workhouses for the vulnerable
Restricting relief: the impact of Sturges Bourne's reforms
Policies from knowledge networks
Policies from scandal
Conclusion: reform and innovation.
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ISBN
9780719089633
0719089638
OCLC
957140014
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