The Poor Law in Nineteenth-century England and Wales

able-bodied poor ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLEMENTATION adult able-bodied agrarian depression allowance system ANNE DIGBY Anti-Poor Law Movement Blaug boards of guardians central board central poor law common fund contemporary counties Ditto economic employment England and Wales English Poor Law evidence fame as Sunday farmers Gilbert's Act Hist Increased numbers indoor paupers indoor relief industrial inmates labour market Lancashire large numbers Law Amendment Act London millions moral Nineteenth Century 1976 North of England Old Poor Law outdoor relief overseers parishes parochial pauper children Poor Law Amendment Poor Law Board Poor Law Commission Poor Law Commissioners poor rates poor relief poor-law administration population pressures principles of 1834 problems prohibitory order rating and settlement rating system reform relief expenditures relief policies Royal Commission rural unions settlement laws sick social welfare southern England Speenhamland surplus labour Swing Riots SYSTEM AFTER 1834 system of poor town Women workhouse system workhouse test WORKHOUSE TO ASYLUM