Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / Jeremy Seabrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seabrook, Jeremy, 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Great Britain.

Poor.

Poverty--Great Britain.

Poverty.

Poor--Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Poverty--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Hurst & Company, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called ""Pauperland."" More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it remains largely unknown to, or often hidden from, those who are not poor. Pauperland is Jeremy Seabrook's account of the mutations of poverty over time, historical attitudes to the poor, and the lives of the impoverished themselves, from early Poor Laws till today. He explains how in the medieval world, wealth

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 How The World Remains Poor; 2 The Perils of Wealth; 3 Where Did the Poor Come From?; 4 Continuities: Historical Attitudes towards the Poor; 5 Voices of the Poor; 6. The Industrial Poor; 7. The Enduring Image of Poverty; 8. An Impermanent Settlement; 9 Modernised Poverty; 10 The Impoverishment of Riches; Conclusion; Index; Footnotes

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84904-442-2

1-84904-443-0

OCLC:

863822896