Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England write by Peter Jones. This book was released on 2020-08-08. Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.
In Their Own Write
In Their Own Write - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Their Own Write write by Steven King. This book was released on 2022-12-15. In Their Own Write available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
A Home from Home?
A Home from Home? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Home from Home? write by Claudia Soares. This book was released on 2023-01-09. A Home from Home? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision. Departing from narratives of reform and discipline which have dominated scholarship, and drawing on material culture and social history approaches, as well as the extensive archives of the Waifs and Strays Society, Claudia Soares provides a new type of study of social care by offering a 'bottom-up' study of children's welfare, and studying the significance of specific types of care practices that held particular cultural and ideological meaning. At its core, the book uses unique first-hand accounts, individual case records, and personal correspondence of children in care in Britain to locate the voices and subjectivities of institutionalised children and their families within the voluntary welfare system between 1870 and 1920. In doing so, it uncovers the real lives, experiences, and attitudes of the children and their families, and offers a timely new approach to understanding the history of children's social care.
The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940
The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 write by Joseph Harley. This book was released on 2022-02-17. The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes.
Work and Unemployment 1834-1911
Work and Unemployment 1834-1911 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Work and Unemployment 1834-1911 write by Marjorie Levine-Clark. This book was released on 2022-06-16. Work and Unemployment 1834-1911 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understandings of ‘unemployment’. The sources show the continuing power of discovering men’s commitment to work by finding ways to make them work. This volume focuses on emigration to put unemployed men to work in the British colonies, the various projects to employ urban men without work on the land, and the increasing ‘Intervention of the State’ in efforts like emigration and labour colonies. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students of British History.
