The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948

by Lynn Hollen Lees

Book Overview

The Solidarities of Strangers is a study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present that combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements. Cultural definitions of entitlement, rather than available resources, determined amounts and beneficiaries. Indeed, industrialization and growing wealth went along with restricted payments to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521572614
• ISBN13: 9780521572613
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"