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This book is concerned with the remarkable changes made to the built environment in Lancashire?s main textile district ? essentially the eastern and central parts of the county ? during the Industrial Revolution (c1780-c1850). A case-study approach is taken, with findings from investigations at six different types of site being presented. The sites included are water-powered mill remains in the Cheesden valley, near Rochdale; Barrow Bridge factory village, near Bolton; the former handloom weavers? colony at Club Houses, Horwich; Preston?s Winckley Square; Eanam wharf at Blackburn; and, to the north of Bolton, the road between Bromley Cross and Edgworth. The case studies show how, in rural and urban areas alike, developments in industry, housing and transport greatly extended the built environment and brought striking new features to it. Emphasis is placed on interpreting the physical evidence the sites provide, linking it with that taken from various types of documentary source, especially historical maps. By making comparisons with developments occurring at similar types of site elsewhere in Britain, as well as in Europe and North America, the forms the changes took are explained and their significance assessed. Additionally, insights are provided into the economic and social impact the changes brought, especially on the everyday lives that people led --

Architecture. --- City planning. --- Lancashire (England) --- History. --- mill --- Lancashire --- workhouse --- architecture --- north-west --- landscape --- industry --- heritage --- textile

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Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and implementation of 'enabling acts' at the end of the old poor laws; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. Pointing towards a new direction in the study of poor law administration, it examines how people, both those in positions of power and the poor, could shape pauper policies. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England.

Social conditions. --- Poor laws. --- Poor laws --- Poor --- Charity laws and legislation --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- England. --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Britain. --- Eighteenth century. --- Government. --- History. --- Local. --- Medicine. --- New Poor Law. --- Nineteenth century. --- No poverty. --- Old poor law. --- Poor law(s). --- Poverty. --- Rural. --- Scandal. --- Social policy. --- Welfare. --- Wessex. --- Work. --- Workhouse(s).

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In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. Behind those facts, in the historical shadows, stand millions of anonymous men and women: the workers who actually put down the railroad ties, hacked out the coal, sewed the shirt collars, printed the books, or carried the bricks that made Germany a great nation. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions. The thirteen men and six women who speak from these pages afford an intimate firsthand look at how massive social and economic changes are reflected on a personal level in the everyday lives of workers. Although some of these autobiographies are familiar to specialists in German labor history, they are virtually unknown and inaccessible to the broader audience they deserve. This book provides translations that are at once useful, interesting, and entertaining to a wide range of historians, students, and general readers.

Working class --- Proletariat --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- History --- History. --- Employment --- Germany --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions. --- barmaid. --- brickyard. --- capitalism. --- child labor. --- child worker. --- cigar maker. --- clay miner. --- coal miner. --- coal mines. --- cook. --- economics. --- factory worker. --- farm worker. --- farming. --- germany. --- glass grinder. --- history. --- household labor. --- household staff. --- industrialization. --- labor conditions. --- labor relations. --- labor. --- machine age. --- maid. --- marxism. --- metalworker. --- migrant workers. --- mines. --- nonfiction. --- railroad. --- seamstress. --- servant. --- social change. --- textiles. --- waiter. --- weaver. --- women and labor. --- women in factories. --- woodworker. --- workers rights. --- workers. --- workhouse. --- working class.

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In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Interweaving analysis of shifting social viewpoints, the evolution of poor relief institutions, and the lived experiences of the urban poor, Janet Chen explores the development of Chinese attitudes toward urban poverty and of policies intended for its alleviation. Chen concentrates on Beijing and Shanghai, two of China's most important cities, and she considers how various interventions carried a lasting influence. The advent of the workhouse, the denigration of the nonworking poor as "social parasites," efforts to police homelessness and vagrancy--all had significant impact on the lives of people struggling to survive. Chen provides a crucially needed historical lens for understanding how beliefs about poverty intersected with shattering historical events, producing new welfare policies and institutions for the benefit of some, but to the detriment of others. Drawing on vast archival material, Guilty of Indigence deepens the historical perspective on poverty in China and reveals critical lessons about a still-pervasive social issue.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Poverty --- Urban poor --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- City dwellers --- History --- China --- Social conditions --- S11/0550 --- S11/0900 --- China: Social sciences--Social welfare system --- China: Social sciences--Social pathology, social deviance (incl. infanticide, abandoned children, hoodlums) --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Beijing. --- China. --- Communists. --- Japanese penology. --- Nanjing Decade. --- Nationalist Party. --- Nationalist government. --- People's Republic. --- Republican-era China. --- Shanghai. --- World War II. --- agrarian revolutionaries. --- beggars. --- citizenship. --- coffin repositories. --- custodial detention. --- detention. --- government custody. --- government institutions. --- homelessness. --- incarceration. --- industrial training. --- labor. --- nonworking poor. --- poor relief. --- poorhouses. --- poverty policies. --- productive citizens. --- productivism. --- reforming elites. --- refugee crisis. --- refugees. --- relief agencies. --- relief agenda. --- scientific charity. --- security. --- shantytowns. --- social dislocation. --- social parasites. --- socialist ideology. --- sociology. --- straw huts. --- twentieth-century China. --- urban disorder. --- urban poor. --- urban poverty. --- vagrancy. --- war victims. --- work relief. --- workhouse. --- workhouses.