TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seabrook,Jeremy
TI  - Pauperland: poverty and the poor in Britain 
SN  - 9781849044424
AV  - HB1 
U1  - 362.5094109 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Hurst
KW  - Poor
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Pauvres
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Pauvreté
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. How The World Remains Poor; 2. The Perils of Wealth; 3. Where Did the Poor Come From?; 4. Continuities: Historical Attitudes towards the Poor; 5. Voices of the Poor; 6. The Industrial Poor; 7. The Enduring Image of Poverty; 8. An Impermanent Settlement; 9. Modernised Poverty; 10. The Impoverishment of Riches; Conclusion; Index; Footnotes
N2  - In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called ""Pauperland."" More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it remains largely unknown to, or often hidden from, those who are not poor. Pauperland is Jeremy Seabrook's account of the mutations of poverty over time, historical attitudes to the poor, and the lives of the impoverished themselves, from early Poor Laws till today. He explains how in the medieval world, wealth
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