Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England

The Old Poor Law Tradition

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.The study:- Incorporates the latest scholarship- Weaves together social, economic, demographic, medical, political, religious and ideological history- Offers fresh treatments of the contextual importance of Christian moral theology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, humanist and protestant thought in the sixteenth century and neo-Stoic benevolence and political arithmetic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries- Explores two competing approaches to social welfare: societas (voluntary, rooted in custom and tradition) and civitas (mandatory, embedded in policy and law)- Concludes with a detailed examination of the first histories of social welfare in England undertaken in the late eighteenth century

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Utgivningsdatum2005-12-05
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt322 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSocial History in Perspective
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780333688953

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'A thoughtful and provocative analysis from which all students of English social welfare will learn a great deal.' - Steve Hindle, University of Warwick, UK 'This admirable survey, which spans several conventional periods, is wide-ranging but always lucid. Particularly helpful is its discussion of changing ideas (about poverty, charity, and social responsibility) and how they affected responses at the local and national levels.' - Marjorie K. McIntosh, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA