Table of Contents

Introduction
The New Poor Law: Legal and Theoretical Framework
Retrenchment Rhetoric: Crusaders and their Critics
The Northamptonshire Poor Law Experience, 1834-1900
Setting the Poor Law Stage to Stigmatise Paupers
A World-without-welfare? Penalising the Poor with Welfare-to-work Schemes
Organising Resistance: Protesting about Pauperism
Class Coalition: Poor Law Crisis and Reaction
Begging for Burial: Fighting for Poor Law Funding
Campaigning for Change: Democracy and Poor Law Politics, 1890-1900
Denouement: Continuity or Change?
Conclusion
Bibliography

Reviews

Well researched and clearly written, this is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the intersection between political and elected political action on the one hand, and the power of democratization on socio-economic policy on the other.
*GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY*

This excellent study of the administration and politics of the English poor law, in a comparatively neglected phase of its history, contributes greatly to our understanding of the 'poverty, politics and poor relief' of the title.
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[Makes] a significant contribution to the historiography of the later nineteenth century.
*AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW*