In their own write : contesting the New Poor Law, 1834-1900 /

"Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was at once considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and the coming of its institutions--from penny-pinching B...

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Main Authors: King, Steven, 1966- (Author), Carter, Paul, active 2003 (Author), Carter, Natalie (Researcher) (Author), Jones, Peter (Historian) (Author), Beardmore, Carol (Carol Anne) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Series:States, people, and the history of social change ; 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Finding and hearing 'voices'
  • Pauper agency
  • Contestation.