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392 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521030663
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 18 January 2007
Description
This study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements--cultural definitions of ...
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392 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521030663
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 18 January 2007
Description
This study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements--cultural definitions of ...