Pauper capital : London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870 / David R. Green.

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

©2010

KD3310 .G743 2010

9780754630081 (cloth : alk. paper)
0754630080 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780754699033 (ebk)
075469903X (ebk)

xviii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

(OCoLC)427645022

"This work provides the first detailed study of the poor law in London during the period leading up to and after the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources the book focuses explicitly on the ways in which those involved with the poor law - both as providers and recipients - negotiated the provision of relief. In the context of significant urban change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, it analyses the poor law as a system of institutions and explores the material and political processes that shaped relief policies."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-274) and index.

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