Hard and unreal advice
Subtitle: mothers, social science, and the Victorian poverty experts
By: Kathleen Callanan Martin.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Poverty -- Research -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Poor -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Poverty -- Research -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Description: This is the first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.