pauperism

(redirected from poor law)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
What is most exciting about this book is the reminder that the moral, cultural, and political assumptions inherent in the nineteenth-century poor law persisted through the change to the welfare state.
Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: "So Much Honest Poverty" in Britain, 1870-1930
This study draws on archival material such as inquiries conducted by poor law inspectors in Britain during the period.
Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain: The Crisis of Care Under the English Poor Law, C1834-1900
Day by day getting poor law and order condition is forcing investors to star away from Pakistan.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT UNDER POOR LAW AND ORDER?
What is most often overlooked is that this hated and feared poor law also gave the destitute a legal right to claim poor relief.
Gruelling conditions for paupers in Wales; What is the most important object in Welsh history? Today LESLEY HULONCE, Swansea University, argues the case for a bowl of gruel
In 1601, the Elizabethan Poor Law required parishes to give relief (food, money, or clothing) to the poor.
Oliver Twist, parish boy: Charles Dickens' glance at the misery of England's poor laws and workhouses
The old Elizabethan Poor Law stipulated that no one should be allowed to starve to death and that the poor must be given their daily bread, and it required each parish to provide a poorhouse to shelter the homeless.
Pride and Prejudice and poor laws
For scholars of poor laws in these two communities, the book will be quite useful as Williams really does go by the numbers, providing lots of charts and graphs of who was given what when.
Poverty, Gender, and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834
Green, Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870 (Burlington: Ashgate 2010)
David R. Green, Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870
It benefited from the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, which created elected Poor Law Guardians to run the workhouses, and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act which set up the modern elected bodies which ran the cities and allowed the massive growth of civic pride.
An 'elected dictator' for city is a backward step; viewpoint
What he didn't mention was her establishing, with her husband Sidney, the magazine the New Statesman that still flourishes today and perhaps her most famous contribution - the Minority Report to the Poor Law Commission in 1909.
Sowing the seeds of welfare state; Views of the North
The ruinous effects of the amended poor law have figured largely in popular memory and scholarly analysis of the famine.
The politics of poor relief
The building, which after the passing of the 1834 New Poor Law became known as the Strand Union Workhouse, is scheduled for demolition in order to make way for an apartment block.
Pride of poor London: Sarah Wise highlights a campaign to save a humble treasure

Legal browser ?
Full browser ?