Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.08.2019
Abbildungen
20 black and white illustrations
Verlag
University Of Hertfordshire PressSeitenzahl
272
Maße (L/B/H)
23.1/15.5/1.3 cm
Gewicht
476 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-912260-14-0
Very little is known of the first workhouse in Birmingham. Even the assumed date of its building, given as 1733 by William Hutton, is wrong. This book is the first attempt to write a history of the workhouse and the ancillary welfare provision for Birmingham, frequently referred to as the 'Old Poor Law.' This study of welfare in Birmingham in the century before the Poor Law Amendment Act reveals some surprising facts which fly in the face of the scholarly consensus that the old system was incompetently administered and inadequately organized. The records of the Overseers and the Poor Law Guardians reveal a complex balancing act between maintaining standards of care and controlling spending. Although there was mismanagement, the picture which emerges will be familiar to our age when welfare services struggle to meet public needs with limited budgets.
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