The Poor in England, 1700-1850: An Economy of MakeshiftsSteven King, Alannah Tomkins This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. In The poor of England some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. The essays attempt to explain how and when the poor secured access to these makeshifts and suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition. |
Contents
List of figures | |
List of tables | |
List of tables page viii | |
Introduction Alannah Tomkins and Steven King | 1 |
Contents | 9 |
Introduction Alannah Tomkins and Steven King 1 | 9 |
Not by bread only? Common right parish relief | 38 |
a game | 76 |
Crime criminal networks and the survival strategies | 137 |
Pawnbroking and the survival strategies of the urban | 166 |
Kinship poor relief and the welfare process in early | 199 |
the economy | 227 |
Conclusion Steven King and Alannin | 258 |
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Conclusion Steven King and Alannah Tomkins 258 | 258 |
Index 281 | 281 |
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The poor in England 1700–1850: An economy of makeshifts Alannah Tomkins,Steve King Limited preview - 2018 |
The Poor in England 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts Alannah Tomkins,Steven King No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
accounts Alannah Tomkins application Barrowford Bramley Cambridge University Press census cent charity school clothing common right context crime criminal customers Dallington early modern England early nineteenth century earned economy of makeshifts eighteenth century enclosure endowed charity England English evidence expenditure Fettes Fettes's forest Garstang Geddington Chase governors Hindle historians Horsforth household Ibid idem income individual industrial kinship Kinship density kinship networks labour Lancashire late eighteenth Leatherbarrow Leeds levels life-cycle listed Little Marsden London makeshift economy Michael le Belfrey north-west north-western communities Northamptonshire NRO Montagu old poor law overseers Oxford parish parish relief particular pauper letters pawnbrokers pawning pawnshop payments pension pledgebook pledges poor relief population poverty recipients records redeemed rent Rockingham Forest role rural Sermon Shaw-Taylor sick Society sort sources Steven King suggests survey Tottington townships trustees unfol urban vestry wages week welfare Welsh School Minutes women York
References to this book
The Experience of Urban Poverty, 1723-1782: Parish, Charity and Credit Alannah Tomkins No preview available - 2006 |