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Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 (Paperback)
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Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 (Paperback)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law,
bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of
society - the lone mother and the elderly. Social welfare,
increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under
considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when
levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their
families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes
as a case study the lived experience of poor families in two
Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it
with the perspectives of other participants in parish politics,
from the magistracy to the vestry, and from overseers to village
ratepayers. It explores the problem of rising unemployment, the
provision of parish make-work schemes,charitable provision and the
wider makeshift economy, together with the attitudes of the
ratepayers. That gender and life-cycle were crucial features of
poverty is demonstrated: the lone mother and her dependent children
and the elderly dominated the relief rolls. Poor relief might have
been relatively generous but it was not pervasive - child
allowances, in particular, were restricted in duration and value -
and it by no means approximated to the income of other labouring
families. Poor families must either have had access to additional
resources, or led meagre lives. Samantha Williams is a university
lecturer in local and regional history at the Institute of
ContinuingEducation, Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow in History, Girton
College, Cambridge.
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