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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Poor Relief"”.
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Poor Relief, Agrarian Laws, and Redistribution in England, c. 1450–1601
… in sixteenth-century England, extending from poor relief, through agrarian laws, to proposals to transform propriety itself. It begins with two chapters on poor relief, identifying a common inheritance from the Bible and early church which provided a model for how poor relief developed in …
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Remove Him to the Poorhouse: Poor-Relief in Montgomery County, VA, 1830-1880
… part call to action, Harrington argued that the poor have largely remained invisible in American society. He endeavored to make America's poor visible as the first step towards addressing the tragedy of poverty. Today, 40 million Americans live in poverty, indicating that it is as much a societal …
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The 'Bury-al Board': poverty, politics and poor relief in the Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire c.1870-1900
The crusade against outrelief, which was promoted by the Local Government Board in the late-Victorian era, is a neglected topic of nineteenth century poor law studies. This thesis examines the crusade against outrelief that was implemented in the Brixworth Union of Northamptonshire because this …
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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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Children and childhood under the Irish Poor Law, c. 1850-1914
This thesis examines the provision of poor relief for children under the Irish Poor Law during the post-Famine era, and it argues that prevailing social constructs of childhood had a major influence upon how welfare was provided for the children within the workhouse institutions. The Irish Poor …
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The devil's poor and the invisible city charity, order and agency in early modern England
… the discourses and practices of charity and poor relief in early modern England in order to characterize changing views of the relation between the individual and the basis of social order. The first part proposes a genealogy of idleness, drawing on Weber's analysis of Protestant worldly …
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Charitable provision for the rural poor: a case study of policies and attitudes in Northamptonshire in the first half of the nineteenth century
… economy of welfare’ available to the rural poor in Northamptonshire in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is the first major study of this kind, as hitherto, historians of welfare have largely concentrated on the public charity of poor relief. It covers the basic needs of the poor, …
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
… strategies of individuals in the receipt of poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the late 1960s. The study focuses on three fields of work: street trade, home industries, and general labour, all of which were ridden with informality, irregularity …
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The Poor Law in Rural Lancashire 1820-50.
… is concerned with the implementation of the New Poor Law in the rural unions in Lancashire. It explores the effects of the legislation upon policies for poor relief and concludes that they can be most appropriately summarised as resulting in change. However, where attitudes towards the poor are …
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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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Democratization and the development of Japan's uneven welfare state
… nations, yet its government taxes the poor more heavily and gives them less in public cash transfers than its peers. Why does a country, endowed with democratic institutions, deep pockets, and a sizable social welfare system provide so little public assistance to the poor? I identify …
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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/>
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“Making ends meet”: Working-class women’s strategies against poverty in West Oxfordshire, c. 1850 – 1900
… is a valuable method of examining the way poor rural women coped with poverty, highlighting the interconnections between their roles of reproduction, production and consumption. Specific results suggest that first, a radical rethink of the role and importance of the home as a female power …
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Making the Poor Work : Social Assistance and Activation in Sweden
Management of poor relief and work demands have been controversial questions in social policy during the workhouse era of the nineteenth century as well as in current discussions on social assistance and activation of recipients. The first part contains a discussion on the concepts of poverty, …
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Petitioning Mothers in England and Wales, 1660-1720
… early modern period faced, including soliciting poor relief, requesting school placements and employment, establishing maintenance for an illegitimate child and pleading for the release of an imprisoned child. Despite being a topic of interest to historians for the last half-century, a holistic …
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Carhampton magistrate district in relation to the 1856 County and Borough Police Act : a case for non-statutory policing
… industry, cost of living, employment, wages, poor relief and instances of stability within individual districts. The Carhampton magistrate district had the advantage of stability in population levels and a long serving constable. There was also a continuity in parish officers. The …
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A study of aspects of crime and distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire
… that the establishment of a permanent system or poor relief impacted upon recorded crime. In regard to other aspects of the nature of crime, it has found that the records of the prosecution of certain types of offences are useful in revealing to us the social values which underpinned the use of …
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A social history of illegitimacy in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
… concerns with unmarried mothers and poor relief, perhaps this study is not altogether esoteric. Concerns over the family, children, and deviations from sexual and social norms are recurring themes in social history and it may not be too great an expectation that the past may …