Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England

Bearing Witness
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-47838-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Steven

Jones, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. From Resistance to Reform: Changing Attitudes to the New Poor Law Workhouse in England and Wales2. Not That Joseph Rowntree: An Amateur Workhouse Inspector3. Pauper Letter Writers, Public Opinion, and the Workhouse Experience4. Bearing Witness

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Jones is a Research Associate at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Steven King is Professor of Economic and Social History at Nottingham Trent University, UK.