Parish Economies of Welfare, 1650–1834
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8959587 |
|---|---|
| Autores | John Broad (0000-0002-3095-6770, London Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1999 |
| Volumen | 42 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 985-1006 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x99008766 |
| PMID | 21250513 |
| OpenAlex | W2102534129 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 13 |
This article argues for a more holistic approach to understanding the Old Poor Law. Using three detailed case studies from southern England, it focuses on the dynamics of differing social groups within the parish. It also looks at the role of the law, looking beyond the statutes to the parts played by King's Bench, Quarter Sessions and individual justices and petty sessions in creating a diversity of experiences for the poor. However, it also stresses the differential access to charitable funds, common rights, and poor relief in individual communities, and the ways in which parish elites attempted to put the total available resources to what they saw as the best uses. From 1650 to 1780 these combined resources allowed a generally humane approach to the treatment of poverty and misfortune, and maintained the independence of the cottager and labourer in southern England. Only after 1780 when population rose sharply and rural employment shrank did the flexibility of combined charitable and rate-based relief founder and more drastic devices were employed to cope with basic needs. In this process the independence of the labourer and cottager was undermined, charitable sources were marginalized, and the seeds were sown for the acceptance of the New Poor Law
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Poor law · Poor relief · Population · Poverty · Quarter (Canadian coin · Sociology · Statute · Welfare · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy
A Network of Contacts
Accommodating the elderly poor
The Poor Law of Old England
Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
Transforming English Rural Society
How dependent were the ‘dependent poor’? Poor relief and the life-course in Terling, Essex, 1762–1834
The extent and nature of pauperism in five Oxfordshire parishes, 1786–1832
The Dependent Poor? (Re)constructing The Lives of Individuals ‘On the Parish’ in Rural Dorset, 1800–1832
Welfare Provision in Oxford During the Latter Stages of the Old Poor Law, 1800–1834
Social Discipline and the Refusal of Poor Relief under the English Old Poor Law, c. 1650–1730
The Development of Poor Relief in Lancashire, C. 1598–1680
An irrevocable shift
| Obras citantes distintas | 13 |
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| Citas por año | 0,65 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 13 |