Samantha A. Shave

Pauper policies (eBook, ePUB)

Poor law practice in England, 1780-1850

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526106186
• Artikelnr.: 48795817

Autorenporträt

Samantha A. Shave is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Lincoln

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: pauper policies 1. A policy process approach to the poor laws
2. Gilbert's Act: workhouses for the vulnerable 3. Restricting relief: the
impact of Sturges Bourne's reforms 4. Policies from knowledge networks 5.
Policies from scandal 6. Conclusion: reform and innovation Appendix Select
bibliography Index