This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious
Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered
A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conce
This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly
This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understanding