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First century of welfare : poverty and poor relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 /
The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of...
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Woodbridge, U.K. :
Boydell Press,
©2014.
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| Colección: | People, markets, goods ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a First century of welfare : |b poverty and poor relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 / |c Jonathan Healey. |
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| 520 | |a The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. "The First Century of Welfare", which focusses on the poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century. Drawing on thousands of individual petitions for poor relief, presented by paupers themselves to magistrates, it peers into the social and economic world of England's marginal people. Taken together, these records present a vivid and sobering picture of the daily lives and struggles of the poor. We can see how their family life, their relations with their kin and their neighbours, and the dictates of contemporary gender norms conditioned their lives. We can also see how they experienced illness and physical and mental disability; and the ways in which real people's lives could be devastated by dearth, trade depression, and the destruction of the Civil Wars. But the picture is not just one of poor folk tossed by the tides of fortune. It is also one of agency: about the strategies of economic survival the poor adopted, particularly in the context of a developing industrial economy, of the support they gained from their relatives and neighbours, and of their willingness to engage with England's developing system of social welfare to ensure that they and their families did not go hungry. In this book, an intensely human picture surfaces of what it was like to experience poverty at a time when the seeds of state social welfare were being planted. JONATHAN HEALEY is University Lecturer in English Local and Social History and Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The first century of welfare -- Marginality and misfortune: poverty in the first century of welfare -- Historians and the poor -- Conclusion: 'deserving' poverty -- Part I: Contexts -- 1. Lancashire, 1600-1730: A developing society -- Landscape and people -- Population and demography -- Agriculture -- Industry and trade -- Social structure -- Conclusion: a developing society -- 2. The arrival and growth of poor relief -- The sixteenth-century background -- The response to '39 Elizabeth' -- The Civil War and after -- Parish and township -- Obtaining relief: meeting needs to resources -- Conclusion -- 3. Pauper tales -- Records of relief: the account of overseers of the poor -- Censuses of the poor -- Voices of the poor? Pauper petitions -- The politics of petitioning -- Understanding poverty and poor relief -- Part II: Marginality -- 4. Marginal people: Descending into poverty? -- Decayed households? Social mobility in pauper petitions, 1626-1710 -- Conclusion -- 5. Resourceful people: Survival strategies of the Lancashire poor -- Self-sufficiency: land, property and labour -- Dependence on others: kin, neighbours and charity -- Conclusion -- Part III: Misfortune -- 6. Dependent people: Endemic poverty -- Multiple hardships -- Old age -- Ill health -- The nuclear household: formation and breakdown -- Economic risk -- Environmental risk -- Conclusion -- 7. Crisis poverty -- Poverty crises in Lancashire, 1630-1715: a chronology -- Crises, 1630-70 -- Dearth and depression: the crisis of 1674-75 -- Crises, 1680-1715 -- 'Never so sickley a time known': the crisis of 1727-30 -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Worldly crosses. | |
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