The Poor Law Report Reexamined
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10099552 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mark Blaug (Universidad de Londres, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1964 |
| Volumen | 24 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 229-245 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1964-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700060502 |
| OpenAlex | W2155511010 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 49 |
| Referencias citadas | 2 |
In an earlier article, I pleaded for a reappraisal of the Old Poor Law. Despite what all the books say, the evidence that we have does not suggest that the English Poor Law as it operated before its amendment in 1834 reduced the efficiency of agricultural workers, promoted population growth, lowered wages, depressed rents, destroyed yeomanry, and compounded the burden on ratepayers. Beyond this purely negative argument, I tried to show that the Old Poor Law was essentially a device for dealing with the problems of structural unemployment and substandard wages in the lagging rural sector of a rapidly growing but still underdeveloped economy. It constituted, so to speak, “a welfare state in miniature,” combining elements of wage-escalation, family allowances, unemployment compensation, and public works, all of which were administered and financed on a local level. Far from having an inhibitory effect, it probably contributed to economic expansion. At any rate, from the economic point of view, things were much the same after 1834 as before. The Poor Laws Amendment Act of 1834 marked a revolution in British social administration, but it left the structure of relief policy substantially unchanged
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Retrospectives
Soziale Grundsicherung in der Weltgesellschaft
Population Policy in Early Victorian England
Welfare Cuts and Crime
North and south
The Old Poor Law and the Agricultural Labor Market in Southern England
The Demographic Impact of the Old Poor Law
Adaptable and sustainable? Male farm service and the agricultural labour force in midland and southern England, c. 1850–1925 1
Material lives of the poor and their strategic use of the workhouse during the final decades of the English old poor law
Lone-parent families and the Welfare State
Before political economy
The Unloved State
Whigs and Paupers
Household Strategies for Survival
Negotiating a Living
The Relief of the Poor in Coventry, 1830–1863
The Power of Personality in the Operation of the New Poor Law
The Historiography of the English State during ‘the Long Eighteenth Century’
Economic Liberalism and the State
The Dependent Poor? (Re)constructing The Lives of Individuals ‘On the Parish’ in Rural Dorset, 1800–1832
Emigration and the New Poor Law
Rethinking the Debates on the Poor Law in Early Nineteenth-Century England
The Empire as a Social Machine
English rural society and the New Poor Law
Thomas Campbell Foster and the rural labourer; Incendiarism in East Anglia in the 1840s∗
Supply variabilities in public workfares
Economic Factors and Internal Migration
Moving to the City
Malthus Was Right after All
An economic model of the English Poor Law circa 1780–1834
Labor productivity and farm size in English agriculture before mechanization
Destined for Deprivation
Does Welfare Spending Crowd out Charitable Activity? Evidence from Historical England under the Poor Laws
How Cruel was the Victorian Poor Law
Pauper Inventories, Social Relations, and the Nature of Poor Relief Under the Old Poor Law, England, C. 1601–1834
The Impact of Sturges Bourne's Poor Law Reforms in Rural England
Customary Rights and Women's Earnings
The Early Economic Writings of William Thomas Thornton
Mark Blaug, 1927-2011
Paupers, Property, and Place
Poor Relief and English Economic Development before the Industrial Revolution
A renda mínima garantida como proposta para remover a pobreza no Brasil
Private property and public health reform in England 1830-1870
An irrevocable shift
The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Allowance System under the Mew Poor Law
The Poor Law of Old England
Illegitimacy, paternal financial responsibility, and the 1834 Poor Law Commission Report
Historians or polemicists? How the Webbs wrote their history of the English poor laws
| Obras citantes distintas | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,82 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1966 - 2025 (60) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 48 |