NICHOLLS (Sir George) – A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH POOR LAW, IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEGISLATION AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
NICHOLLS (Sir George) – A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH POOR LAW, IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEGISLATION AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
NICHOLLS (Sir George) – A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH POOR LAW, IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEGISLATION AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
NICHOLLS (Sir George) – A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH POOR LAW, IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEGISLATION AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
    NICHOLLS (Sir George)
    A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH POOR LAW, IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEGISLATION AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
Édition :
    London
Date :
    1854
    2 vols. in-8, full brown cloth bindings, covers framed by numerous filigree decorations, partially uncut, (spines torn, joints worn, corners rubbed with slight losses, cloth faded and rubbed, edges bumped, title page with slight foxing, several underlines and a few annotations, notably in pencil on the endpapers, occasional foxing), interior very fresh. [This work comes from the personal library of Professor Jean Carbonnier (1908-2003)], XXIX-408-4 / VI-467 p.
    This book is unavailable in all French libraries. The author presents here a work born from extensive experience and the result of his involvement in the comprehensive reform of poor relief in the United Kingdom, amending the "Indigent Laws," the first of which was enacted under Elizabeth I more than two centuries earlier. The infamous workhouses, to which Charles Dickens devotes the opening chapters of Oliver Twist and which notably drew criticism from Friedrich Engels, became a place of confinement for a segment of the population, forced to sell their labor. Believing that reform of the treatment of poverty in the United Kingdom was essential, the author was driven from the 1920s onward by the desire to put an end to in-home assistance for the poor and to subsidies paid by parishes, and to rely instead on this workhouse system, which then became a prerequisite for access to assistance. After being appointed overseer of the poor in Southwell in 1821, his choices and adjustments to the existing system were incorporated into his work published in 1834, aimed at reforming welfare. Having dedicated a significant portion of his career to this field, he devoted his retirement to writing, notably this book, drawing on his extensive experience. This book thus covers the treatment of poverty in the United Kingdom from the time of the laws of Kings Athelstan (924) and Canute (1017), even before the reign of Richard II, up to 1854, at the very heart of the Victorian era.

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