Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England: Bearing Witness 1st Edition

Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England: Bearing Witness 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030478384,9783030478391,3030478386,3030478394

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3030478394
• ISBN 13: 9783030478391
• Author: Peter Jones

This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

Table contents:

1. From Resistance to Reform: Changing Attitudes to the New Poor Law Workhouse in England and Wales
2. Not That Joseph Rowntree: The Amateur Workhouse Inspector
3. Pauper Letter Writers and the Workhouse Experience
4. Bearing Witness and Thinking Again

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