In Their Own Write Av Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, Carol Beardmore

In Their Own Write Av Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, Carol Beardmore

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching Boards of Guardian......
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Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people.Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intra
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Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time,the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse - has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people.Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities.Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.

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Oppdag In Their Own Write av Steven King & Co.

In Their Own Write er en fascinerende reise gjennom historien om det viktorianske velferdssystemet i England og Wales, skrevet av et imponerende team bestående av Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, og Carol Beardmore. Dette unike verket kombinerer førstehåndserfaring og utallige vitnesbyrd fra de som opplevde de harde realitetene av New Poor Law. Gjennom persepsjonen til de mindre bemidlede viser boken hvordan de navigerte i et byråkrati som ofte var både strengt og uforsonlig.

Hva kan du forvente av In Their Own Write?

  • Historisk innsikt: Oppdag hvordan de fattige opplevde og reagerte på velferdsordninger og de utfordringene de sto overfor.
  • Engasjerende fortellinger: Hver side er fylt med gripende vitnesbyrd og brev som gir livet til de som opplevde velferdssystemet.
  • Uventede perspektiver: I motsetning til den tradisjonelle fremstillingen av de fattige, viser denne boken hvordan de hadde makt til å påvirke utfallet av økonomisk støtte.
  • Bredt spekter av stemmer: Vitnesbyrd fra både de som fikk hjelp og de som ytet den gir en unik og nyansert forståelse av datidens velferd.

Hvorfor lese In Their Own Write?

Hvis du er interessert i sosialhistorie, vil denne boken utvide horisonten din og gi deg en dypere forståelse av de sosiale strukturene som formet livet til millioner av mennesker. Det er ikke bare en bok—det er en viktig dokumentarisk kilde som utfordrer våre forestillinger om sykelighet og motstandskraft.

Ta et dypdykk i skjulte historier, fortalt av de det angår mest. In Their Own Write er et essensielt tillegg til enhver samling for den som ønsker å forstå fortiden på en ny måte.

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