The poor in England, 1700-1850 : an economy of makeshifts
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The poor in England, 1700-1850 : an economy of makeshifts
Manchester University Press, c2003
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Economy of makeshifts
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. In The poor of England some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. The essays attempt to explain how and when the poor secured access to these makeshifts and suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition. -- .
Table of Contents
- "Not by bread only"? Common right, parish relief and endowed charity in a forest economy, 1600-1800, Steve Hindle
- the economy of makeshifts and the poor law - a game of chance? Margaret Hanly
- "Agents in their own concerns"? Charity and the economy of makeshifts in 18th-century Britain, Sarah Lloyd
- crime, criminal networks and the survival strategies of the poor in early 18th-century London, Heather Shore
- pawnbroking and the survival strategies of the urban poor in 1770s York, Alannah Tomkins
- kinship, poor relief and the welfare process in early modern England, Sam Barrett
- making the most of opportunity - the economy of makeshifts in the early modern north, Steve King.
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