Title: Conclusion The Changing Experience of Poor Relief
Abstract:Looking at the experience of parish relief shared by a tiny minority shows only a small fragment of the changing nature of poor relief as a whole, and the majority of those who were in need moved at t...Looking at the experience of parish relief shared by a tiny minority shows only a small fragment of the changing nature of poor relief as a whole, and the majority of those who were in need moved at the margins of a system in which notions of entitlement were both under-developed and contested. In reconstructing the workings of that system, the evidence presented in this book provides an invaluable historical perspective for debates about the rights and obligations of the poor in 21st-century society, where the piecemeal dismantling of the welfare state implies that there is likely to be, once again, no right to relief from cradle to grave.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-08-05
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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