The Poor Law had a profound impact on English society. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare. The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 provides a concise synthesis of recent scholarly work together with full references, explaining the origins of this unique system of welfare, and showing how it played a central role in English social and political development from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution.
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"Paul Slack's The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 is a well-informed and concise survey of recent scholarly research about social welfare legislation in early modern England." Elisabeth Cawthon, H-Net Reviews
"...this is an excellent book, especially for young scholars wishing to research the Old Poor Law. It provides a brief, yet thorough historical account, helpful bibliographic tools, and even a checklist of relevant statutes." David McCarter, Sixteenth Century Journal
"...this is an excellent book, especially for young scholars wishing to research the Old Poor Law. It provides a brief, yet thorough historical account, helpful bibliographic tools, and even a checklist of relevant statutes." David McCarter, Sixteenth Century Journal
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This text provides a concise synthesis of recent scholarly work on the Poor Law, which was designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty. It explains the origins of the unique system of welfare, and shows how it played a central role in English social and political development.
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Paul Slack is the author of many works regarding the socio-economic conditions of early modern England: this is one of his briefer works, yet it is wonderfully detailed and insightful. If you're interested in the topic of early modern welfare, historical treatment of the poor, and the criminalization of poverty during this time, this is the book for you. It's also a good source if you're a student doing research and/or a paper, as this text is very brief: lots of information in a condensed format.
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'The kingdom became then much more populous than in former times, and with it the poor also greatly increased.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poor law, parish officers, outdoor relief, settlement laws, poor relief Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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'The kingdom became then much more populous than in former times, and with it the poor also greatly increased.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Order and Disorder in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher in Back Matter
- State of the Poor by Frederick Morton Eden in Back Matter
- Poor Relief in Elizabethan Ipswich (Suffolk Records Society) by John Webb in Back Matter
- Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth: Deep Structure, Discourse and Disguise by Paul Fideler in Back Matter
- Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Mary E. Fissell in Back Matter
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- The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time) by Susannah R. Ottaway on page 71, and Back Matter
- Early Modern Conceptions of Property (Consumption and Culture in 17th and 18th Centuries, No 2) by John Brewer on page 59
- From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff in Back Matter
- Medieval Economic Thought (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Diana Wood on page 48
- The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation by Seymour Drescher in Back Matter
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