Lorie Charlesworth: 1 book
Welfare's Forgotten Past
A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
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. Poor law was not...
