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An overview of the literature on poverty, and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700 to 1850. It examines how we should conceptualize poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 9/28/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719049408, 978-0719049408
      ISBN10: 0719049407

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An overview of the literature on poverty, and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700 to 1850. It examines how we should conceptualize poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.

      Table of Contents

      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

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