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Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England: Bearing Witness

By Peter Jones , Steven King

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030478384, 9783030478391
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-47839-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1636518 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
IX, 136\143
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
History; History of Britain and Ireland; Social Hi

Description

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 a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

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