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Informationen zum Autor Steven King is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester Klappentext The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the literature on poverty, communal welfare systems and alternative welfare strategies. Offers a new perspective on how we should conceptualise poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.. Indicates the need for new directions in the study of poverty and welfare using previously unpublished results form one of the biggest poor law databases in existence.. Argues that welfare historians have paid too little attention to the complexities of defining and measuring poverty, and a variety of primary source material is used to reconsider the extent of poverty in the period 1700-1850.. Provides the first systematic attempt to discuss the regional dimensions of the welfare system in an English context.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty. Zusammenfassung An overview of the literature on poverty! and of the welfare policies of the state! as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700 to 1850. It examines how we should conceptualize poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, tables and mapsPreface1. Introduction2. Poverty and welfare: the legal framework3. The welfare debate4. Defining and measuring poverty5. Alternative worlds of poverty6. Welfare in the south and east, 1700-18207. Welfare in the north and west, 1700-18208. Welfare under the new poor law, 1821-18509. Conclusion: old and new perspectives in welfare historyAppendix one - PlacesAppendix two - A legal chronology of the poor lawsBibliographyIndex
