Welfare's forgotten past
Subtitle: a socio-legal history of the poor law
By: Lorie Charlesworth.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415477383
Subjects: England and Wales; Poor laws -- England -- History; Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- England -- History
Notes: "A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a history of forgetting; title: Rights of the poor : towards a negative modernity; title: Socio-legal juristic narratives : poor law's legal foundations; title: Deconstructing from the negative : a critical historiography of legal [mis]conceptions; title: Lived experience : the poor "speak"; title: Paupers as textual analysis : exploring the settlement entitlement through little dorrit; title: Lived experience : poor law administration; title: Developments and transformation over time : dichotomising the poor; title: The road to beveridge : eforming welfare; title: End thoughts : on the transience of legal memory.