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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Poor Laws"”.
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Paternalistic, Parsimonious Pragmatists: The Wigan Board of Guardians and the Administration of the Poor Laws 1880-1900
This thesis analyses poor law administration in Wigan Union from 1880-1900. The late-nineteenth century is fertile territory for poor law historians, and this study intends to further enhance our understanding of the period. Local studies are vital given that the weakness of central authority …
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Poor law reform and policy innovation in rural southern England, c.1780-1850
Recent analysis in poor law history has uncovered the experiences of individual relief claimants and recipients, emphasising their role in the welfare process. The literature has, however, tended to draw a false dichotomy between understanding the experiences of the individual poor and …
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Prairie Paupers: North Dakota Poor Farms, 1879-1973
<p>This study examines the history of county poor farms in North Dakota and places them within the wider perspective of poor relief in the United States.</p> <p>North Dakota inherited its system of poor relief from the Elizabethan and American colonial poor laws. Poorhouses were a part of poor …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… by Hiltner and Fumerton) alongside the Poor Laws. This social history is combined with water-focused ecocriticism, shipwreck and a postcolonial reading of migrancy. Ultimately, the enmeshed position of the migrant in history, economics, and their environment in Shakespeare’s works is …
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Essays on health economics and development policies
… a strong association between the distribution of poor relief and birth rates during the 1800s in England. Census data on the county-level administration of the poor relief in Ireland corroborate the findings, indicating that societal policies and institutions are able to affect individual-level …
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Poverty, savings banks and the development of self-help, c. 1775-1834
… ideology and as an organisational principle for poor relief and how it came to dominate discussions over poverty and crucially inform the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The continuity of self-help with earlier discussions and reviews of the poor laws is explored and emphasised, as is the …
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Imagining membership and its obligations : the voice of John Ruskin in Wendell Berry's fiction.
… to the nineteenth-century debates over the Poor Laws and that places Jayber in dialogue with opposing interpretations of professionalism.
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The Poor Law in Bradford c. 1834-1871. A study of the relief of poverty in mid-nineteenth century Bradford.
… has been a proliferation of local studies of Poor Law administration, many of them concerned with the period of transition from the Old to the New Poor Laws. This thesis complements other local studies; it offers a detailed examination of Poor Law administration in and around the rapidly …
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'Who of us care to be seen assisting an old woman?': the institutional care of Ireland's elderly women, 1845 - 1908
… responses towards old age and the importance of poor relief and welfare for aged women in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland.<br/>