LEADER 03664 am 22006493u 450 001 9910287936203321 005 20230621141337.0 035 $a(CKB)4100000006999955 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35124 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006999955 100 $a20181014h20182003 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurb|#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe poor in England 1700-1850 $ean economy of makeshifts /$fedited by Steven King and Alannah Tomkins 210 $cManchester University Press$d2003 210 1$aManchester, England :$cManchester University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (285 pages) $cfigures, maps (black and white); digital, PDF file(s) 300 $aFirst published: 2003. 311 $a1-5261-3786-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. Incomes or benefits derived from such strategies allegedly ranged from wages supported by under-employment via petty crime through to charity, but allusions to this array of makeshifts usually fall short of answering vital questions about how and when the poor secured access to them. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition. Individual chapters written by some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. They suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. A comprehensive introduction summarises the state of research on English poverty, and a thought-provoking conclusion makes valuable suggestions for the direction of future research. This book will be crucial for historians of social life and welfare, of interest to researchers working on eighteenth- /nineteenth- century England and will be useful to undergraduates seeking guidance on the historiography of poverty. 606 $aPoor$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPoor$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCharity$xHistory 606 $aIncome$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aPublic welfare$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aSocial networks$zEngland$xHistory 610 $ahistory 610 $apoor 610 $apoverty 610 $aengland 610 $aKinship 610 $aLancashire 610 $aLondon 610 $aPawnbroker 610 $aPoor relief 610 $aVestry 615 0$aPoor$xHistory 615 0$aPoor$xHistory 615 0$aCharity$xHistory. 615 0$aIncome$xHistory. 615 0$aPublic welfare$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial networks$xHistory. 676 $a305.569094209033 700 $aTomkins$b Alannah$4auth$0800724 702 $aKing$b Steven$f1966- 702 $aTomkins$b Alannah 801 0$bUkMaJRU 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910287936203321 996 $aThe poor in England 1700-1850$93389430 997 $aUNINA