Power and Pauperism aims to provide a new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy. The workhouse system is set in the wider context in an age associated, paradoxically, with both laissez-faire and increasing state regulation. The study pays particular attention to conflicts over Poor Law policy and workhouse design. Dr Driver demonstrates that despite appearances the workhouse system was far from monolithic, and that official policy was beset with conflict: his study combines a national perspective on the system with a sensitivity to regional variation in policy and practice. The analysis of patterns of relief regulation and institutional provision presented here provides, for the first time, a truly national picture of the workhouse system in operation. Power and Pauperism emphasises the need to link the study of social policy with wider patterns of power and the value of a geographical perspective in the study of social policy. The book as a whole offers a challenging new interpretation of the historical geography of social policy in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Power and Pauperism aims to provide a new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy. Dr Driver demonstrates that despite appearances the workhouse system was far from monolithic, and that official policy was beset with conflict.
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A foreigner travelling through the country of England, as he enters almost any significant county town, will see somewhere close adjoining it four large buildings:- One of these will look like a large mansion, the second like a house of refuge, the third like a mimic castle or fortress, and the fourth like a factory or huge storehouse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Huddersfield Union, West Riding, Boards of Guardians, Crosland Moor, Local Government Board, Alfred Power, Huddersfield Guardians, Annual Report, Assistant Commissioners, Board of Guardians, Edwin Chadwick, London Unions, Law Guardians, Social Science Association, Gilbert's Unions, Home Office, Jeremy Bentham, Royal Commission, Somerset House, Gilbert's Act, Karel Williams, Local Act Unions, Nassau Senior, Robert Barnes, Home Secretary New!
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A foreigner travelling through the country of England, as he enters almost any significant county town, will see somewhere close adjoining it four large buildings:- One of these will look like a large mansion, the second like a house of refuge, the third like a mimic castle or fortress, and the fourth like a factory or huge storehouse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Huddersfield Union, West Riding, Boards of Guardians, Crosland Moor, Local Government Board, Alfred Power, Huddersfield Guardians, Annual Report, Assistant Commissioners, Board of Guardians, Edwin Chadwick, London Unions, Law Guardians, Social Science Association, Gilbert's Unions, Home Office, Jeremy Bentham, Royal Commission, Somerset House, Gilbert's Act, Karel Williams, Local Act Unions, Nassau Senior, Robert Barnes, Home Secretary New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Pauperism and Poor Laws by Robert Pashley on page 67, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Urbanising Britain: Essays on Class and Community in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) by Gerry Kearns in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Liverpool and Merseyside: Essays in the Social & Economic History of the Port and its Hinterland by John Raymond Harris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Economic History and the History of Economics by Mark Blaug in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Problems (10th Edition) (MySocKit Series) by D. Stanley Eitzen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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