Welfare's Forgotten Past

Informationen zum Autor Lorie Charlesworth is Reader in Law and History at Liverpool John Moore's University. Klappentext That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Zusammenfassung That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: A History of Forgetting 2. Rights of the Poor: Towards a Negative Modernity 3. Socio-Legal Juristic Narratives: Poor Law s Legal Foundations 4. Deconstructing from the Negative: A Critical Historiography of Legal [Mis]conceptions 5. Lived Experience: The Poor `Speak 6. Paupers as Textual Analysis: Exploring the Settlement Entitlement Through Little Dorrit 7. Lived Experience: Poor Law Administration 8. Developments and Transformation Over Time: Dichotomising the Poor 9. The Road to Beveridge: Deforming Welfare 10. End Thoughts: On the Transience of Legal Memory

Klappentext

That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A History of Forgetting 2. Rights of the Poor: Towards a Negative Modernity 3. Socio-Legal Juristic Narratives: Poor Law s Legal Foundations 4. Deconstructing from the Negative: A Critical Historiography of Legal [Mis]conceptions 5. Lived Experience: The Poor `Speak 6. Paupers as Textual Analysis: Exploring the Settlement Entitlement Through Little Dorrit 7. Lived Experience: Poor Law Administration 8. Developments and Transformation Over Time: Dichotomising the Poor 9. The Road to Beveridge: Deforming Welfare 10. End Thoughts: On the Transience of Legal Memory