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The Solidarities of Strangers - The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Solidarities of Strangers - The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Solidarities of Strangers is a study of English policies toward
the poor from the seventeenth century to the present that 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. Indeed,
industrialization and growing wealth went along with restricted
payments to the needy, while universal allowances and insurance
systems expanded as the economy faltered and world wars crippled
budgets and drained resources. Although the English poor laws were
a 'residualist' system, aiding the destitute when neither family
nor charities covered needs, they went through cycles of generosity
and meanness that affected men and women unequally. The long-term
history of welfare in England and Wales has not been a story of
continued progress and improvement but one determined by
continually changing attitudes toward poverty.
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