Poverty, gender and life-cycle under the English poor law, 1760-1834 /
Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these fi...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. :
Boydell & Brewer
2011.
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| Colecção: | Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.cttn34br |
Sumário:
- Introduction
- People, place and poverty
- Policy and paupers
- Paying for poverty
- Gender, life-cycle and the life-course
- Work, unemployment and the makeshift economy
- Conclusion.