Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England [electronic resource] : Bearing Witness / by Peter Jones, Steven King.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9783030478391
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/1284
Yazar
Jones, Peter.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2020.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
IX, 136 p. 1 illus. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
1. From Resistance to Reform: Changing Attitudes to the New Poor Law Workhouse in England and Wales -- 2. Not That Joseph Rowntree: An Amateur Workhouse Inspector -- 3. Pauper Letter Writers, Public Opinion, and the Workhouse Experience -- 4. Bearing Witness.
Özet, vb.
This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.
Konu
Great Britain __ History.
Social history.
Civilization __ History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Diğer Yazarlar
King, Steven.
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