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In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.
Poor laws --- Illegitimacy --- Unmarried mothers --- Unwed mothers --- Single mothers --- Illegitimate children --- Bastardy --- Legitimacy (Law) --- Parent and child (Law) --- Sex and law --- Paternity --- History. --- History --- Law and legislation --- Social history. --- Great Britain-History. --- Civilization-History. --- Women. --- Law-History. --- Social History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Cultural History. --- Women's Studies. --- Legal History. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Great Britain—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Law—History.
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Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a case study the lived experience of poor families in two Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it with the perspectives of other participants in parish politics, from the magistracy to the vestry, and from overseers to village ratepayers. It explores the problem of rising unemployment, the provision of parish make-work schemes, charitable provision and the wider makeshift economy, together with the attitudes of the ratepayers. That gender and life-cycle were crucial features of poverty is demonstrated: the lone mother and her dependent children and the elderly dominated the relief rolls. Poor relief might have been relatively generous but it was not pervasive - child allowances, in particular, were restricted in duration and value - and it by no means approximated to the income of other labouring families. Poor families must either have had access to additional resources, or led meagre lives. Samantha Williams is a university lecturer in local and regional history at the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow in History, Girton College, Cambridge.
Public welfare --- Poor laws --- Poverty --- Poor --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Charity laws and legislation --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- History --- Economic conditions --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Government policy --- Charitable Provision. --- Eighteenth Century. --- Family. --- Gender. --- Life-Cycle. --- Nineteenth Century. --- Poor Law. --- Poverty. --- Social Welfare. --- Unemployment.
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In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.
Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Law --- Higher education --- World history --- History of civilization --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- vrouwenstudies --- zwangerschap --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- schrijfvaardigheid --- sociale geschiedenis --- moederschap --- Europese geschiedenis
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"Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival is the first book to explore the trauma of the boarding school experience at Steward Indian School and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances"--
Indians of North America --- Indian students --- Off-reservation boarding schools --- Education --- History. --- Stewart Indian School (Carson City, Nev. : -1980) --- Carson City (Nev.) --- History
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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919
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