First century of welfare : poverty and poor relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730

First century of welfare poverty and poor relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730

The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Healey, Jonathan (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, U.K. : Boydell Press ©2014.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history ; 4.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39834621*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The first century of welfare
  • Marginality and misfortune: poverty in the first century of welfare
  • Historians and the poor
  • Conclusion: 'deserving' poverty
  • Part I: Contexts
  • 1. Lancashire, 1600-1730: A developing society
  • Landscape and people
  • Population and demography
  • Agriculture
  • Industry and trade
  • Social structure
  • Conclusion: a developing society
  • 2. The arrival and growth of poor relief
  • The sixteenth-century background
  • The response to '39 Elizabeth'
  • The Civil War and after
  • Parish and township
  • Obtaining relief: meeting needs to resources
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Pauper tales
  • Records of relief: the account of overseers of the poor
  • Censuses of the poor
  • Voices of the poor? Pauper petitions
  • The politics of petitioning
  • Understanding poverty and poor relief
  • Part II: Marginality
  • 4. Marginal people: Descending into poverty?
  • Decayed households? Social mobility in pauper petitions, 1626-1710
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Resourceful people: Survival strategies of the Lancashire poor
  • Self-sufficiency: land, property and labour
  • Dependence on others: kin, neighbours and charity
  • Conclusion
  • Part III: Misfortune
  • 6. Dependent people: Endemic poverty
  • Multiple hardships
  • Old age
  • Ill health
  • The nuclear household: formation and breakdown
  • Economic risk
  • Environmental risk
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Crisis poverty
  • Poverty crises in Lancashire, 1630-1715: a chronology
  • Crises, 1630-70
  • Dearth and depression: the crisis of 1674-75
  • Crises, 1680-1715
  • 'Never so sickley a time known': the crisis of 1727-30
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion: Worldly crosses.

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