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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 9 Figures 10 Tables 12 Acknowledgements 13 Permissions 15 Abbreviations 16 Introduction: pauper policies 17 1. A policy process approach to the poor laws 33 2. Gilbert’s Act: workhouses for the vulnerable 72 3. Restricting relief: the impact of Sturges Bourne’s reforms 127 4. Policies from knowledge networks 166 5. Policies from scandal 213 6. Conclusion: reform and innovation 264 Appendix: Further details of identified Gilbert’s Act Parishes and Unions in Table 2.2. 284 Select bibliography 295 Index 305 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2017,ISBN:9781526106179,Language:English,OCLC:1000907537 Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and implementation of ‘enabling acts’ at the end of the old poor laws; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national

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Author

Shave, Samantha A

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526124142

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Law