Title: The Idea of Poverty
First published: 1984
Description: Discusses the views of great thinkers from 1750 to 1850--including Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, and Friedrich Engels--toward the condition of the poor in England
Subjects: 18th century, 19th century, Economic conditions, England, History, Political aspects of Poor, Poor, Pauvres, Conditions économiques, Industrialisatie, Sociale filosofie, Armut, Condiciones económicas, Armoede, Histoire, Pobres, Industrialisierung, Historia, Poverty, Economic history
Places: England, Great Britain
Time periods: 1760-1860, 18th century, 19th century