The National Charity Company: Jeremy Bentham's Silent Revolution

by Charles F. Bahmueller

Book Overview

At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan. He proposed to restructure the English Poor Law, a set of laws for the relief of poverty first codified under Queen Elizabeth. Bentham's plan was to dispense poor relief through a national network of workhouses (the National Charity Company) constructed on the basis of his famous Panopticon architectural principle and coordinated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520303970
• ISBN13: 9780520303973
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"