The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 by Paul Slack

The English Poor Law, 1531-1782

New Studies in Economic and Social History

Paul Slack

88 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

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The Poor Law had a profound impact on English society. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare. The English Poor...

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