Power and Pauperism
The Workhouse System 1834-1884
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4869571 |
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| Authors | Antony Taylor |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Pages | 362 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Power and pauperism: The Workhouse System, 1834-1884, Felix Driver, 1993 |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25143947 |
| OpenAlex | W2067174158 |
| Language | EN |
Policing society: government, discipline and social policy 2. Social policy, liberalism and the mid-Victorian state 3. Rational landscapes? the geography of Poor Law government 4. Designing the workhouse system, 1834-1884 5. Building the workhouse system, 1834-1884 6. Classifying the poor: maps of pauper-land 7. The politics of territory: the anti-Poor Law movement 8. From township to Union? the geography of Poor Law administration at a local level 9. The workhouse system from a local perspective Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Archaeology · Poorhouse · Power (physics · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Everyday Spaces of Human Trafficking
A strong and prosperous condition' - the geography of state building and social reform in Peter the Great's Russia
Retrospectives
The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The New Poor Law Guardians and the Administration of Insanity in East London, 1834-1844
Parsimony, Power, and Prescriptive Legislation
That Coming Storm”
Torture and the Ticking Bomb
Parish and Belonging
Space and Government
Critiques, ideals and blueprints in the historical geography of Scotland’s lunatic asylums, 1857–1872
Imperial spectacle and emergency shelters
‘Visitation by God’
Liberty and the individual
Space, Knowledge and Power
‘Children in a Ragged State’
In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855
Welfare Recipients or Workers? Contesting the Workfare State in New York City
‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’
The caprice of a local board of guardians’
The decline of companies and voluntary organisations as infrastructure providers in nineteenth-century England
Housing the ‘decayed members’ of the middle classes
Great inhumanity’
Diagnostic Spaces
Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
The Dirty Scruff”
Construction of the child question in early republican Turkey and social services as an art of government
Managing Foucault
Foucault's population geographies
In the Cheapest Way Possible
Plague, Panopticon, Police
Family, community and the Victorian asylum
Joseph Bramley of East Stoke, Nottinghamshire
Creating the Poor Law Legacy
Transitory spaces of care
Staying in? Invited comments on ‘Coming out
An Irregular and Inconvenient Pile of Buildings”
To Punish or Protect
The Loes and Wilford Poor Law Incorporation 1765–1826
Economies and Strategies of the Northern Rural Poor
Punishing paupers? Control, discipline and mental health in the Southwell workhouse (1836–71)
Progression and retrogression
Teaching ‘small and helpless’ women how to live
A Burden on the County
The rural panopticon
To Each a Space
Space and the structuring of disciplinary power
The world was never flat
Journey to asylum
Maps and the assessment of parish rates in nineteenth‐century England and Wales
The English Utilitarians, Some Recent Reconsiderations
Roast Beef, the New Poor Law, and the British Nation, 1834–63
The Gendered Economy of Family Liability
Feeding in the Workhouse
Strikers and the Right to Poor Relief in Late Victorian Britain
Poverty and Illness in the ‘Old Countries’
The biopolitics of food provisioning
The political ecology of hegemony in depression-era British Columbia, Canada
Dundee's Jute mills and factories
Wild Workhouse Girls and the Liberal Imperial State in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland
Cribbed, Contained, and Confined
Property, the Formation of the Pioneer State and the Working of Power in Rural Australia
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom
State Security and the 'Hostile Acres
A 'new Foucault' with lively implications - or 'the crawfish advances sideways
Bondage
The modern cemetery
In Good Faith
Spatial rationalities
An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals
John Stuart Mill and modern liberalism
From Poverty to Perversity
Down and Then Out in Bucharest
Mapping Cosmopolis
Equipping entrepreneurs
| Highly cited | No |
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