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Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law

Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law

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General LawPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0415477387
ISBN13: 9780415477383
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Published: Feb 1 2010
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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