Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction.
  • Part 1:The Reform of the Old Poor Law.
  • 1 - Sir William Young. The Parish Workhouse.
  • 2 - Thomas Gilbert. Gilbert's Act.
  • 3 - The Renoval Act.
  • 4 - Rev. David Davies. The State of the Labourer (1795).
  • 5 - Sir F.M. Eden. The Speenhamland Scale (1795).
  • 6- Samuel Whitbread. A Minimum Wage.
  • 7 - Sir F.M. Eden. Pitt's Scheme for Poor-Law Reform.
  • 8 - The Magistrate's Powers of Relief.
  • 9 - Select Committee on Poor Rate Returns. The Rising Cost of Relief.
  • Critics of the Poor Law.
  • 10A - Sir F.M. Eden. The State of the Poor.
  • 10B - Rev. T.R. Malthus. Essay on Population.
  • 10C - Patrick Colquhoun. A Treatise on Indigence.
  • 10D - The Committee of 1817. Report.
  • The Abuses of Poor Relief.
  • 11A - A Select Committee on Labourers' Wages. The Allowance System.
  • 11B - Samuel Makin & John Robinson. Industrial Speenhamland.
  • 11C - Rev. Phillip Hunt. The Roundsman System.
  • 11D - Thomas Bowyer. The Labour Rate.
  • 11E - Henry Boyce. An Aunction of Paupers.
  • 11F- J.D. Tweety. Labour on the Roads.
  • 11G- Select Committee on the Employment or Relief of Able Bodied Persons. The Brad Scale.
  • 11H - Asst Commissioner Walcott. The Overseers.
  • 12 - Thomas Smart. The State of the Labourer (1824).
  • The Reform of the Poor Law.
  • 13A - W.D. Evans. Poor Law Administration in Manchester.
  • 13B- Sturges Bourne's Act.
  • 13C - Lister Ellis. A Stricter Relief System.
  • 13D - R. J.T. Becher.The Anit Pauper System.
  • Part 2: The Reception of the New Poor Lawn - The Royal Commission on the Poor Law.
  • 14 - Royal Commission. Instructions to Assistant Commissioners.
  • 15 - Royal Commission. Questions for Parishes.
  • 16 - Edwin Chadwick. The 1834 Report.
  • 17 - Nassau Senior. The Preparation of the Poor Law Bill.
  • 18 - Lords Althorp, Edward Baines & William Cobbett. The Poor Law Debate.
  • 19 - The Times. Against the New Poor Law.
  • 20- The Poor Law Amendment Act.
  • The First Years of the Poor Law Commission.
  • 21 - Poor Law Commission. The Regulatin of Outdoor Relief.
  • 22 - W.H. Gilbert. Rural Opposition.
  • 23 - Uckfield Union, Sussex. The Effects of the New Poor Law.
  • 24 - R.H. Greg. The Migration Scheme.
  • The Anti Poor Law Movement.
  • 25 - Joseph Ellison. The Good Olds System.
  • 26 - Richard Oastler. The New Poor Law.
  • 27 - G.R.W. Baxter. Anti Poor Law Tales.
  • 28 - 'Marcus on Populousness'.
  • 29 - G. Tinker. The State of the Huddersfield Union.
  • 30 - Poor Law Commission. Poor Relief Regulations.
  • The Fall of the Pooe Law Commission.
  • 31- William Day. The Difficulties of an Assistant Commissioner.
  • 32 - Poor Law Commission. Indoor and Outdoor Relief.
  • 33 - Select Committee on the Andover Union. Chadwick's Quarrel with the Poor Law Commissioners.
  • 34- Sir George Grey. The Poor Law Board.
  • Part 3, The Poor Law in Operation 1834-71.
  • The Central Authority and the Boards of Guardian.
  • 35 - Joseph Rogers. A Corrupt Guardian.
  • 36- R.A. Arnold. A Board of Guardians at Work (1862).
  • Outdoor Relief.
  • 37A - Poor Law Commission. Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order (December 1844).
  • 37B - Poor Law Commission. Outdoor Labour Test Order (April 1842).
  • 37C - Poor Law Board. Outdoor Relief Regulation Orders (1852).
  • 38 - Blackburn Union. A Protest Against the Relief Regulation Order.
  • 39 - Popular Union. A Labour Test.
  • 40 - Rev E.H. Carr. Inadequate Relief.
  • 41 - Skipton Union. Relief in Aid of Wages.
  • 42 - W.M. Torrens. Poor Relief and the Cotton Famine.
  • 43 - Robert Rawlinson. The Public Works Act.
  • The Workhouse.
  • 44A - Poor Law Commission. Workhouse Diets.
  • 44B - Dr Edward Smith. Survey of Worhouse Diets.
  • 45 - H. Taine. A Manchester Workhouse.
  • 46 - R. Tatham. A Worhouse Hospital.
  • 47- The Lancet. Report on Worhouse Infirmaries.
  • 48 - Poor Law Board. Improvement of Sick Wards.
  • Pauper Children.
  • 49 - Poor Law Commission. Less Eligibility and Education.
  • 50 - J.P. Kay. Pauper Scool.
  • 51 - Household Words. A Pauper Palace.
  • 52 - Mrs N. Senior. Pauper Scools and Boarding Out.
  • Settlement, Removal and Vagrancy.
  • 53 - Bradford Union. An Illegal Removal.
  • 54n- Mr Blyth. Close and Open Parishes.
  • 55 - A. Power. The Burden on Agriculture.
  • 56 - The 1846 Act.
  • 57 - J. Beckwith & C. Heaps. The effects of the 1846 Act.
  • 58A - George Coode. Reform of the Law of Settlement.
  • 58 B- Joseph Ellison. Reform of the Law of Settlement.
  • 59 - The Union Chargeability Act.
  • 60 - Charles Buller. The Buller Minute.
  • 61 - Liverpool Parish. Rules for a Vagrant Ward.
  • 62 - Andrew Doyle. The "Terror of the Tramp".
  • Finance.
  • 63 - R.E. Warwick. The Inequality of the Poor Rate (Parishes).
  • 64 - William Day. Poor Law Union Finance.
  • 65- William Rathbone. The Inequality of the Poor Rate (Rate-payers.)
  • Part 4: The Poor Law Under Attack, 1870-1914.
  • The Campaign Against Outdoor Relief.
  • 66- G.J. Goschen. The Goschen Minute.
  • 67 - Local Government Board. Circular on Outdoor Relief (1871).
  • 68 - Manchester Guardians. Regulations on Outdoor Relief (1875).
  • 69 -Dr P.F. Aschrott. The COS at Work.
  • The Inadequacies of the Poor Law.
  • 70 - Robert Blatchford. A Socialist View of the Poor Law.
  • 71 - B.S. Rowtree. The Investigation of Poverty.
  • 72 - Alfred Marshall. Outdated Ideas.
  • 73 -Samuel Barnett. Lack of Uniformity.
  • 74 - Georges Lansbury. A Working-class Guardian.
  • Better Treatment.
  • 75A - Local Government Board. Advice of Treatment of Old People.
  • 75B. G. Cuttle. Old People in Essex Worhouses.
  • 76 - T.J. Macnamara. Better Treatment for Children.
  • 77A - Joseph Chamberlain. The Chamberlain Circular (1886)
  • 77B -The Unemployed Wormen Act (1905).
  • The Royal Commission on the Poor Laws.
  • 78 - Local Government Board.The Statistic of Pauperism.
  • 79 - Beatrice Webb. The Aims of the Royal Commission.
  • 80 - Royal Commission. The Majority Report.
  • 81 - Royal Commission. The Minority Report.
  • 82 - National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution. The Crusade.
  • 83 -J. Austen Chamberlain. The Conservatives and the Minority Report.
  • Part 5: The Break-Up of the Poor Law 1914-30.
  • The Effects of World War I.
  • 84- Local Government Board. War Victims and the Poor Law.
  • 85 - Ministry of Health. The Reducation of Pauperism.
  • 86 - The Macclean Report.
  • Post-war Depression and Poplarism.
  • 87- Ministry of Health. Restrictions on Outdoor Relief.
  • 88 - Pall Mall Gazette. Poplarism.
  • 89 - Poplar Board of Guardians. Poplar's Answer.
  • The End of the Boards of Guardians.
  • 90 - Joseph Jackson. No Relief for Blacklegs.
  • 91 - Gateshead Union. The Guardians in the Red.
  • 92 - John Wheatley. Opposition to the Default Bill.
  • 93 - The Boards of Guardians (Default) Act.
  • 94 - Chester-le-Street.
  • 95 - Sidney Webb. Speech on the Local Government Bill.
  • 96 - The Local Government Act (1929).