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050	0	4	_aHV245 _b.I584 2022
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aKing, Steven, _d1966- _e1
245	1	0	_aIn their own write : _bcontesting the new poor law 1834-1900 / _cSteven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, and Carol Beardmore.
260			_aMontreal ; _aKingston ; _aLondon ; _aChicago : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _c(c)2022.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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490	1		_aStates, people, and the history of social change ; _v6
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520	0		_a"Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was at once considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and 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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_a1 Thinking about the New Poor Law -- _tPART ONE Finding and Hearing "Voices" -- _t2 Navigating and Measuring -- _t3 Advocating for the Poor -- _t4 Responding to Paupers and Advocates: The Central Authority -- _tPART TWO Pauper Agency -- _t5 Rhetoric and Strategy: A Corpus View -- _t6 Knowing the Poor "Law" -- _t7 The Female Voice -- _t8 Becoming Old -- _t9 The Able-Bodied Poor -- _tPART THREE Contestation -- _t10 Punishing the Pauper Complainant -- _t11 Limits to Agency? The Sick Poor -- _t12 Experiencing the Poor Law -- _tAppendix: Sampling
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650		0	_aPoor laws _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aPoor _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aPoor _zGreat Britain _xSocial conditions _y19th century.
650		0	_aPublic welfare _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aCarter, Paul, _dactive 2003, _e1
700	1		_aCarter, Natalie _c(Researcher), _e1
700	1		_aJones, Peter _c(Historian), _e1
700	1		_aBeardmore, Carol _e1
700	1		_q(Carol Anne),
856	4	0	_zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password. _uhttpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3508924&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell