Solidarities of Strangers

Name: Solidarities of Strangers
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948

Autor: Lynn Hollen Lees

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The Solidarities of Strangers is a study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth ce...

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Autor

Lynn Hollen Lees

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1998

Pagini

392

EAN

9780521572613

ISBN

0521572614

Enbook ID

02035725

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

730

Dimensiuni

162 x 234 x 31

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The Solidarities of Strangers is a study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present that combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements. Cultural definitions of entitlement, rather than available resources, determined amounts and beneficiaries. Indeed, industrialization and growing wealth went along with restricted payments to the needy, while universal allowances and insurance systems expanded as the economy faltered and world wars crippled budgets and drained resources. Although the English poor laws were a 'residualist' system, aiding the destitute when neither family nor charities covered needs, they went through cycles of generosity and meanness that affected men and women unequally. The long-term history of welfare in England and Wales has not been a story of continued progress and improvement but one determined by continually changing attitudes toward poverty.

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