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Informationen zum Autor Alannah Tomkins is Lecturer in History at the University of Keele Klappentext This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. In The poor of England some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. The essays attempt to explain how and when the poor secured access to these makeshifts and suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. Zusammenfassung Investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. This book attempts to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with an empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - Alannah Tomkins and Steven King2. 'Not by bread only'? Common right, parish relief and endowed charity in a forest economy, c.1600-1800 - Steve Hindle3. The economy of makeshifts and the poor law: a game of chance? - Margaret Hanly4. 'Agents in their own concerns'? Charity and the economy of makeshifts in eighteenth-century Britain - Sarah Lloyd5. Crime, criminal networks and the survival strategies of the poor in early eighteenth century London - Heather Shore6. Pawnbroking and the survival strategies of the urban poor in 1770s York - Alannah Tomkins7. Kinship, poor relief and the welfare process in early modern England - Sam Barrett8. Making the most of opportunity: the economy of makeshifts in the early modern north - Steve King9. Conclusion - Steve King and Alannah TomkinsIndex...
