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The First Century of Welfare - Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 (Paperback)
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The First Century of Welfare - Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 (Paperback)
Series: People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
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The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the
seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old
Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social
welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of
thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and
productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the
poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the first
major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth
century. Drawing on thousands of individual petitions for poor
relief, presented by paupers themselves to magistrates, it peers
into the social and economic world of England's marginal people.
Taken together, these records present a vivid and sobering picture
of the daily lives and struggles of the poor. We can see how their
family life, their relations with their kin and their neighbours,
and the dictates of contemporary gender norms conditioned their
lives. We can also see how they experienced illness and physical
and mental disability; and the ways in which real people's lives
could be devastated by dearth, trade depression, and the
destruction of the Civil Wars. But the picture is not just one of
poor folk tossed by the tidesof fortune. It is also one of agency:
about the strategies of economic survival the poor adopted,
particularly in the context of a developing industrial economy, of
the support they gained from their relatives and neighbours, andof
their willingness to engage with England's developing system of
social welfare to ensure that they and their families did not go
hungry. In this book, an intensely human picture surfaces of what
it was like to experience poverty at a time when the seeds of state
social welfare were being planted. JONATHAN HEALEY is University
Lecturer in English Local and Social History and Fellow of Kellogg
College, University of Oxford.
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