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Paperback The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 Book

ISBN: 1843839563

ISBN13: 9781843839569

The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730

(Part of the People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History Series)

The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare.

The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the...

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