Pauper policies: Poor Law practice in England, 1780-1850
- Submitting institution
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University of Lincoln
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 29954
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9780719089633
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Combining a ‘policy process’ approach from social policy with extensive archival research of local and national administrative documents, this book examines how policies under the poor laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed and abandoned in England c.1780-1850. This innovative work explores significant aspects of poor law history previously overlooked: the adoption and implementation of 'enabling acts'; the exchange of knowledge on how to best provide relief; and the impact of scandals. The book points towards a new direction in the study of past welfare, where both those in positions of power and the poor themselves could shape policies. 300 pages.
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- Non-English
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