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Poverty, gender and life-cycle under the English poor law, 1760-1834 /

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 fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Samantha, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell & Brewer, 2011.
Colección:Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • People, place and poverty
  • Policy and paupers
  • Paying for poverty
  • Gender, life-cycle and the life-course
  • Work, unemployment and the makeshift economy
  • Conclusion.