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In Their Own Write Contesting
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022
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In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834â"1900 (Volume 6) (States, People, and the History of Social Change)
King, Steven,Carter, Paul,Beardmore, Carol,Jones, Peter,Carter, Natalie
Language: English
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In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834-1900 Volume 6
Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press December 2022, 2022
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In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834-1900
Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, Carol Beardmore
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022
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In Their Own Write : Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022
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Paperback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching… Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
In Their Own Write : Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022
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Paperback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching… Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834-1900 (States, People, and the History of Social Change) (States, People, and the History of Social Change, 6)
Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 2023-01-13, 2023
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In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900 (Volume 6) (States, People, and the History of Social Change)
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
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In Their Own Write Contesting the New Poor Law, 18341900
King, Steven/ Carter, Paul/ Carter, Natalie/ Jones, Peter/ Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
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In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834-1900 (States, People, and the History of Social Change, 6) (Volume 6)
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
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In Their Own Write : Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
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In Their Own Write : Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
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In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900 (Volume 6) (States, People, and the History of Social Change)
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022
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In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834-1900
Steven King|Paul Carter|Natalie Carter|Peter Jones|Carol Beardmore
Language: English
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Condition: New. Über den AutorSteven King is professor of economic and social history at Nottingham Trent University and the author of Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s. Paul Carter is principal records specialist (Modern Domes.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching… Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834â"1900 (Volume 6) (States, People, and the History of Social Change)
King, Steven,Carter, Paul,Carter, Natalie,Jones, Peter,Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022
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Paperback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching… Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
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In Their Own Write : Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
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In Their Own Write : Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834?1900
King, Steven; Carter, Paul; Carter, Natalie; Jones, Peter; Beardmore, Carol
Language: English
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Hardback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching…Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
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Hardback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching…Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
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In Their Own Write Contesting the New Poor Law, 18341900
Steven King|Paul Carter|Natalie Carter|Peter Jones|Carol Beardmore
Language: English
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Hardback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching…Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
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Hardback. Condition: New. Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching…Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
