The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700–1948
ISBN-13:
9780521030663
ISBN-10:
0521030668
Author:
Lynn Hollen Lees
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
392 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521030663
ISBN-10:
0521030668
Author:
Lynn Hollen Lees
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
392 pages
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The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700–1948 (ISBN-13: 9780521030663 and ISBN-10: 0521030668), written by authors
Lynn Hollen Lees, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.
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This study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements--cultural definitions of entitlement, rather than available resources, determined amounts and beneficiaries. The English poor laws went through cycles of generosity and meanness that affected men and women unequally. The long term history of welfare in England and Wales was not one of continued progress and improvement but one determined by continually changing attitudes toward poverty.
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