Overview
Fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare
Explores the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration
Identifies a workhouse reform ‘movement’ beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale
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Steven King is Professor of Economic and Social History at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England
Book Subtitle: Bearing Witness
Authors: Peter Jones, Steven King
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47839-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47838-4Published: 09 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47839-1Published: 08 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 136
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History