Giving alms no charity, and employing the poor a grievance to the nation
Subtitle: being an essay upon this great question, whether work-houses, corporations, and houses of correction for employing the poor, as now practis'd in England; or parish-stocks, as propos'd in a late pamphlet, entituled, A bill for the better relief, imployment and settlement of the poor, &c. are not mischievous to the nation, tending to the destruction of our trade, and to encrease the number and misery of the poor.
By: Addressed to the Parliament of England.
Publisher: Printed, and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster.
Published: 1704
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Bill for the better relief, employment, and settlement of the poor; Almshouses -- Great Britain; Charities; orkhouses; Poor -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Economic conditions