In this book, Shave advocates a re-emphasis of the need to invest more effort in understanding the administrative processes of the Old Poor Law’s last fifty years and the New Poor Law’s first twenty years (c. 1780–1850). She views scholars’ recent focus on the experiences of those in receipt of poor relief, particularly that making exclusive use of overseers’ accounts, as inclined to neglect what she terms the “policy process.” She seeks to remedy this neglect through focused consideration, in Chapters 2 and 3, of two sets of enabling Acts of Parliament and their manner of adoption by parishes. The intent behind Thomas Gilbert’s Act of 1782 was to move vulnerable sections of the population (children and the elderly) within those parishes that adopted it to a workhouse for employment while focusing outdoor relief on the able-bodied poor. The Sturges Bourne Act of 1819 permitted parishes to employ an assistant...
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November 01 2018
Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780–1850
Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England,
1780–1850
. By Samantha
A.
Shave
(Manchester
, Manchester
University Press
, 2017
) 300
pp. $110.00
Richard Smith
Richard Smith
Downing College
University of Cambridge
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Richard Smith
Downing College
University of Cambridge
Online ISSN: 1530-9169
Print ISSN: 0022-1953
© 2018 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2018
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2018) 49 (3): 496–498.
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Richard Smith; Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780–1850. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2018; 49 (3): 496–498. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01314
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