No Fixed Abode: A History of Responses to the Roofless and the Rootless in Britain

by Robert Humphreys

Book Overview

Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces how for centuries emergent laws have combated alleged threats from unruly vagrants while largely ignoring causal factors like economic fluctuation, bad harvests, disease and war. It is argued that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349409057
• ISBN13: 9781349409051
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"