Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780–1850

Author:   Samantha A. Shave
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9781526135674


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780–1850


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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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Author:   Samantha A. Shave
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9781526135674


ISBN 10:   1526135671
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 -- .

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'Pauper policies presents exciting new research on the English Poor Laws before and after the Amendment Act of 1834. This original study of an institution that lay at the heart of life for many centuries is empirically rich and analytically engaging. Shave's book provides a superb example of how painstaking archival work opens the possibility of deeper understanding of a wide range of cognate areas of social and political life. Beautifully written and clearly argued, this is an excellent addition to the scholarship.' Professor Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia 'The book is an excellent addition to the historiography. It is well written and researched and contains important new findings on several key topics that have largely been ignored by historians.' Dr Joseph Harley , Reviews in History 'Samantha Shave has written one of the most original books on the English Poor Law in years: she has taken topics we thought we knew well, such as Gilbert's Act, and given them new and insightful treatment.' Alannah Tomkins, Keele University, Rural History, (2018) -- .


'Pauper policies presents exciting new research on the English Poor Laws before and after the Amendment Act of 1834. This original study of an institution that lay at the heart of life for many centuries is empirically rich and analytically engaging. Shave's book provides a superb example of how painstaking archival work opens the possibility of deeper understanding of a wide range of cognate areas of social and political life. Beautifully written and clearly argued, this is an excellent addition to the scholarship.' Professor Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia 'The book is an excellent addition to the historiography. It is well written and researched and contains important new findings on several key topics that have largely been ignored by historians.' Dr Joseph Harley , Reviews in History 'Samantha Shave has written one of the most original books on the English Poor Law in years: she has taken topics we thought we knew well, such as Gilbert's Act, and given them new and insightful treatment.' Professor Alannah Tomkins, Keele University, Rural History, (2018) 'What emerges from this exceptionally rich and detailed research is a thorough and grounded understanding of how poor law administration developed across large swathes of southern England stretching from Sussex in the east through to Somerset in the west. It is a very significant and highly original contribution to an already considerable body of work on the English poor law.' Professor David Green, King's College London -- .


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

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