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Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law Charlesworth, Lorie (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 1st edition
Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law
Charlesworth, Lorie (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute.
248 pages, 1 black & white tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 15, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415477383 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 240 × 20 mm · 518 g |
| Language | English |