Welfare's forgotten past : a socio-legal history of the poor law / Lorie Charlesworth.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Charlesworth, Lorie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a history of forgetting
  • Rights of the poor : towards a negative modernity
  • Socio-legal juristic narratives : poor law's legal foundations
  • Deconstructing from the negative : a critical historiography of legal [mis]conceptions
  • Lived experience : the poor "speak"
  • Paupers as textual analysis : exploring the settlement entitlement through little dorrit
  • Lived experience : poor law administration
  • Developments and transformation over time : dichotomising the poor
  • The road to beveridge : eforming welfare
  • End thoughts : on the transience of legal memory.