English Poor Law Policy

Sidney and Beatrice Webb

Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb

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Routledge
07 December 2020

Poverty & unemployment; Social welfare & social services

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism from the 'Revolution of 1834' to the Majority and Minority Reports of 1909. In their preface to this volume the Webbs wrote:

What obscured the history was the manner in which masses of heterogeneous facts were heaped together. To read, one after another, these complicated Orders and lengthy Reports, each dealing with all kinds of paupers and various methods of relief, was but to accumulate confusion. They resembled a heap of geological conglomerates which could not be assayed until they had been broken up in such a way as to sort the different materials into separate homogeneous parcels .

This book succeeds in presenting a masterly survey of this sector of the British social services on the eve of the foundation of the Welfare State, and completes the corpus of the Webbs on the Poor Law.

By: Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138392052
ISBN 10: 1138392057
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 379
Publication Date: 07 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sidney Webb also author of The Basis and Policy of Socialism - Primary Source Edition.