The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700 1948 by Lynn Hollen Lees

The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700 1948

Lynn Hollen Lees

392 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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This study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements--cultural definitions of ...

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