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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 r

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Author

Alannah Tomkins; Steven King

Publisher

Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847790668

Category

business

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Updated

2026-03-25