This was to be achieved by curtailing outdoor relief and the use of the workhouse, as a mechanism of welfare delivery operating under the principal of less eligibility. For further information see S. and B Webb, (1963) English Poor Law; S. King, (2000) Poverty and Welfare in England, ...
The Asylum, the Workhouse, and the Voice of the Insane Poor in 19th-Century England 喜欢 0 阅读量: 36 作者: P Bartlett 摘要: The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of patients. In this paper, admission records and case notes of ...
The Andover workhouse scandal as it became known, became the catalyze of a change in the poor law system introduced in the 1830’s to attempt to deal with the large numbers of poor and destitute people in need of support. In the early 1800’s, England was a country beset with a multitu...
ALMSHOUSESPUBLIC welfarePOOR lawsPOOR peoplePOVERTYMICROHISTORYHISTORY of London (England), 1800-1950This article uses a microhistorical approach to investigate the "workhouse experience" of a single pauper in late nineteenth-century London. Its subject is Frank Burge, a remarkably pro...
forced to work if they were at all able, typically for low wages. By the 1900s, this form of social services was starting to be seen as crude and perhaps not very productive, in addition to expensive for the state, and the laws pertaining to support for the poor were reworked to align...
Poverty among the elderly in late Victorian England1 Despite rapid increases in manual workers' wages, poverty rates among the elderly remained high in late Victorian England, although they varied significantly across Poor Law Unions. This paper begins by examining the ability of workers t... GR ...