Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870This work provides a detailed study of the Poor Law in London during the period leading up to and after the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. Drawing on a wide rage of sources, the book focuses explicitly on the ways in which those involved with the Poor Law negotiated the provision of relief. |
Contents
The Context of Poor Law Reform | 1 |
London and the Regions under the Old Poor Law | 25 |
Metropolitan Geographies of Pauperism The Old Poor Law | 51 |
Parish Politics and the Coming of the New System | 81 |
Building the Workhouse System | 115 |
Negotiating Relief Pauper Encounters with the Poor Law | 157 |
Paying for Pauperism Urban Change and Fiscal Stress | 189 |
Reforming Relief From Removals to Redistribution | 213 |
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administration and practical Annual Report answers to town anti-poor law Assistant Poor Law asylums Bethnal Green Board and predecessors Board of Guardians casual poor cent City of London cost of relief eastern districts England and Wales English Poor Law Figure George Hanover Square Government Board Greenwich Ibid indoor paupers indoor relief irremovable January Journal labour large numbers Law Amendment Act London parishes London unions London workhouses lunatics magistrates March Metropolis Middlesex nineteenth century number of paupers outdoor relief overseers parochial pauper children political poor in England Poor Law Amendment Poor Law Board Poor Law Commission Poor Law Commissioners poor law expenditure poor law unions poor relief Poor Removal Act population Poverty practical operation Radical ratepayers reform relatively relieving officers Select committee select vestries Shoreditch Southwark St George Hanover St George Southwark St Giles St James Westminster St Marylebone St Pancras total number town queries whilst workhouse