Obligation, entitlement and dispute under the English Poor Laws / edited by Peter Jones and Steven King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Peter, editor.

King, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor laws--England.

Poor laws.

Poor laws--Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often thought of as essentially "modern": How should the state support those in work but who do not earn enough to get by? How should communities deal with in-migrants and immigrants who might have made only the lightest contribution to the economic and social lives of those communities? What basket of welfare rights ought to be attached to the status of citizen? How might people prove, maintain and pass on a sense of "belonging" to a place?

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8661-0

OCLC:

933130000