1st Edition

English Poor Law Policy

By Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb Copyright 1910
394 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism from the ‘Revolution of 1834’ to the Majority and Minority Reports of 1909. In their preface to this volume the Webbs wrote: "What obscured the history was the manner in which masses of heterogeneous facts were heaped together. To read, one after... Read more

1. The Revolution of 1834. 2. The Poor Law Commissioners. 3. The Poor Law Board. 4. The Local Government Board. 5. The Principles of 1907. 6. The Majority Report of the Royal Commission of 1905-1909. 7. The Minority Report of the Royal Commission of 1905-1909. 8. Summary and Conclusion.

Biography

Sidney Webb also author of The Basis and Policy of Socialism - Primary Source Edition.