The Girl Who Lived On Her Clothes - Wendy Gordon

The Girl Who Lived On Her Clothes

The People of Paisley and the New Poor Law, 1839–76

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
220 Seiten
2024 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80079-990-5 (ISBN)
52,95 inkl. MwSt
An engaging, compassionate social history of poverty and poor relief in Paisley, including the implementation of the New Poor Law for Scotland, analysis of who applied for relief, and the role of local events, individuals, and decisions in shaping the law for the nation.
Criticized as parsimonious and cruel in the later 1800s, the Poor Law for Scotland was first passed in 1845 as a frankly humanitarian measure in response to desperate poverty on display in Paisley and elsewhere in the early 1840s. Poor Law Inspector James Shaw Brown of Paisley Burgh Parish, a compassionate, detail-oriented bureaucrat, was charged with alleviating suffering while limiting expense. In his four-decade career he served the poor, the parochial board, and rate payers of the parish, weaving their conflicting needs and demands though the arcane rules of the law. Inspector Brown and colleagues across the nation interpreted and debated the meaning of the law in correspondence and the courts for decades before it approached its final form. This book delves into Inspector Brown’s life and records to reveal how poverty and the poor law shaped life experiences for tens of thousands of ordinary Scots in the middle years of the nineteenth century.

Wendy M. Gordon is Professor of History at SUNY Plattsburgh, where she has flourished since 1998. She received her Ph.D. from Central Michigan University, conferred jointly with the University of Strathclyde. She previously wrote Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women’s Independent Migration in England, Scotland and the United States (2002).

Contents: The Case of the Unemployed and Destitute Inhabitants: Managing Poverty in Paisley before the New Poor Law: 1834–42 – The Case of the Distant Legislature: How the New Poor Law Came to Paisley: 1842–6 – The Case of the Girl Who Lived on Her Clothes: How the People of Paisley Met the Poor Law – The Case of the Starving Men: Relieving the Able-bodied Unemployed: 1847–66 – The Case of the Widow’s Settlement: The New Poor Law and Women’s Agency: 1850–61 – The Case of the Crowded Asylum: A Contest for Local Control: 1858–1876.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland ; 14
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Valentina Bold
Zusatzinfo 8 Illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 344 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80079-990-X / 180079990X
ISBN-13 978-1-80079-990-5 / 9781800799905
Zustand Neuware
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