Elizabeth T Hurren

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Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900Paperback, 18 June 2015

Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900
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Part of Series
Royal Historical Society Studies in History New
Print Length
308 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Royal Historical Society
Date Published
18 Jun 2015
ISBN-10
086193329X
ISBN-13
9780861933297

Description

A fresh look at the complex question of outdoor poor relief in the nineteenth century.

The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented to try to deal with it contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular being the crusade against outdoor relief, during which central government sought to halt all welfare payments at home.
Via a close case study of Brixworth union in Northamptonshire, which offers an unusually richcorpus of primary material and evidence, the author looks at what happened to those impoverished men and women who struggled to live independently in a world-without-welfare outside the workhouse. She retraces the experiences ofelderly paupers evicted from almshouses, of the children of the aged poor prosecuted for parental maintenance, of dying paupers who were refused medical care in their homes, and of women begging for funeral costs in an attempt toprevent the bodies of their loved ones being taken for dissection by anatomists. She then shows how increasing democratisation gave the labouring poor the means to win control of the poor law.

ELIZABETH T. HURREN is a Reader in the Medical Humanities, University of Leicester.

Product Details

Author:
Elizabeth T Hurren
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
18 June 2015
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.65 cm
ISBN-10:
086193329X
ISBN-13:
9780861933297
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
308
Weight:
435.45 gm

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