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On the Parish? - The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England 1550-1750 (Paperback)
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On the Parish? - The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England 1550-1750 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Social History
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On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over
the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of
sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It
analyzes the relationships between the enduring systems of informal
support through which the laboring poor made attempts to survive
for themselves; the expanding range of endowed charity encouraged
by the late sixteenth century statutes for charitable uses; and the
developing system of parish relief coordinated under the
Elizabethan poor laws.
Based on exhaustive research in the archives of the trustees who
administered endowments, of the overseers of the poor who assessed
rates and distributed pensions, of the magistrates who audited and
coordinated relief and of the royal judges who played such an
important role in interpreting the Elizabethan statutes, the book
reconstructs the hierarchy of provision of relief as it was
experienced among the poor themselves. It argues that receipt of a
parish pension was only the final (and by no means the inevitable)
stage in a protracted process of negotiation between prospective
pensioners (or "collectioners," as they came to be called) and
parish officers. This running theme is itself reflected in a series
of chapters whose sequence seeks to mirror the experience of
indigence, moving gradually (and by stages) from the networks of
care provided by kin and neighbors into the bureaucracy of the
parish relief system, emphasizing in particular the importance of
labor discipline in the thinking of parish officers.
By illuminating the workings of a relief system in which notions
of entitlement were both under-developed and contested, On the
Parish?provides historical perspective for contemporary debates
about the rights and obligations of the poor in a society where the
dismantling of the welfare state implies that there is, once again,
no right to relief from cradle to grave.
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