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Manchester University Press The Experience of Urban Poverty, 1723–82: Parish, Charity and Credit

Name: The Experience of Urban Poverty, 1723-82: Parish, Charity and Credit
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This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty’s encounters with officialdom. It exploits an unusual methodology to secure new perspectives from familiar sources. The highly localised characteristics of the welfare economy generated a peculiarly urban environment for the poor. Separate chapters examine the parameters of workhouse life when the preconceptions of contemporaries have been stripped away; the reach of institutional charities such as almshouses, schools and infirmaries; and the surprisingly broad clientele of urban pawnbrokers. Detailed analysis of the poor is achieved via meticulous matching of individuals who fell within the purview of two or more authorities. The result is a unique insight into the survival economics of urban poverty, arising not from a tidy network of welfare but from a loose assembly of options, where the impoverished positioned themselves repeatedly to fit official, philanthropic, or casual templates of the ‘deserving’. This book will be essential reading for historians of English poverty and welfare, and eighteenth-century social and economic life. -- .

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Brand: Manchester University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0719075041
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 October 2006
Listed Since: 23 January 2007

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