Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780-1850

by Samantha A. Shave

Overview

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and implementation of 'enabling acts' at the end of the old poor laws; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. Pointing towards a new direction in the study of poor law administration, it examines how people, both those in positions of power and the poor, could shape pauper policies. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526106186
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	04/14/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Samantha A. Shave is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leicester

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Pauper policies 2. A policy process approach to the poor laws 3. Gilbert's Act workhouses for the vulnerable 4. Restricting relief: the impact of Sturges Bourne's reforms 5. Policies from knowledge networks 6. Policies from scandal 7. Conclusion: Reform and innovation Appendix Select bibliography Index