A study of English policies toward the poor from the 1600s to the present, showing how clients and officials negotiated welfare settlements.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Residualism Taken for Granted, 1700-1834: 1. The welfare process under the old poor laws; 2. Weekly doles: communal support in the eighteenth century; 3. Excluding paupers, 1780-1834; Part II. Residualism Refined and Restricted, 1834-60; 4. Classifying and confining paupers, 1834-60; 5. 'Though poor, I'm a gentleman still'; 6. 'Pauperism' in practice, 1834-70; Part III. Residualism Re-evaluated and Rejected, 1860-1948; 7. Re-evaluating the urban poor, 1860-90; 8. The multicampaign war on pauperism, 1870-1906; 9. Popular rejection of the poor laws; 10. New principles for social action, 1906-48; Epilogue: residualism redux, 1948-95; Appendix: collection and analysis of settlement examinations; Bibliographic essay; Index.
