Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England
Bearing Witness
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…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: King, Steven
- ISBN: 978-3-030-47839-1
- EAN: 9783030478391
- Produktnummer: 34564317
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'633 KB
Über den Autor
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.
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