| The English Poor Law, 1531 1782 Contributor(s): Slack, Paul (Author), Kirby, Maurice (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521557852 ISBN-13: 9780521557856 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: this series provides a concise and authoritative guide to the current interpretations of key themes in economic and social history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 344.204 |
| LCCN: 95018728 |
| Series: New Studies in Economic and Social History |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.35" W x 8.38" (0.25 lbs) 88 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Poor Law had a profound impact on English society. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare. The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 provides a concise synthesis of recent scholarly work together with full references, explaining the origins of this unique system of welfare, and showing how it played a central role in English social and political development from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution. |