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Samantha Williams Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English (Paperback)

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Publication Name: Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 gtin13: 9781843838661 Title: Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1 Country of Origin: GB ISBN: 9781843838661 Subject Area: Law, Political Science, Social Science, History ISBN-10: 1843838664 EAN: 9781843838661 Publication Year: 2013 Item Length: 9.2 in Release Date: 09/19/2013 Release Year: 2013 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited Topic: History Item Height: 0.4 in Format: Trade Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Pages Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General, Legal History Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Ser. Item Width: 6.1 in Type: Textbook Author: Samantha Williams Genre: Society & Culture Language: English Item Weight: 11.1 Oz Book Title: Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1

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Further Details Title: Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 Condition: New ISBN-10: 1843838664 Format: Paperback Author: Samantha Williams, Williams, Samantha EAN: 9781843838661 ISBN: 9781843838661 Publisher: The Boydell Press Release Date: 09/19/2013 Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, History Description: Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mother and the elderly.Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a case study the lived experience of poor families in two Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it with the perspectives of other participants in parish politics, from the magistracy to the vestry, and from overseers to village ratepayers. It explores the problem of rising unemployment, the provision of parish make-work schemes,charitable provision and the wider makeshift economy, together with the attitudes of the ratepayers. That gender and life-cycle were crucial features of poverty is demonstrated: the lone mother and her dependent children and the elderly dominated the relief rolls. Poor relief might have been relatively generous but it was not pervasive - child allowances, in particular, were restricted in duration and value - and it by no means approximated to the income of other labouring families. Poor families must either have had access to additional resources, or led meagre lives. Samantha Williams is a university lecturer in local and regional history at the Institute of ContinuingEducation, Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow in History, Girton College, Cambridge. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 156mm Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series Item Weight: 314g Release Year: 2013 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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