Summary |
The contents of the book includes –
I. Early Guilds
II. The Guild Merchant and The Craft Guild
III. Town Relief of the Poor in the Tudor Period
IV. State Action under the Tudors for Suppression of Vagrancy and Relief of the Poor.
V. Administration of the Elizabethan Poor-law Code
VI. Other Measures for Social Welfare by Tudor Governments
VII. Early Social Legislation in Scotland and Ireland
VIII. Poor Relief under Stuart Administration
IX. Break in Central Administration
X. Setting the Poor to Work
XI. Eighteenth Century Workhouses
XII. Eighteenth Century Friendly Societies
XIII. Trade Clubs of the Eighteenth Century
XIV. Political and Economic Thought leading to the Royal Commission’s Report on Poor Laws, 1832-4
XV. Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834
XVI. The Era of Self-Help
XVII. The Problem of the Unemployed
XVIII. Social Insurance under the Liberal Administration of 1906
XIX. Social Security Measures between the Wars.
XX. The Break-up of the Poor Law.
XXI. The New Code of Social Security –I
XXII. The New Code of Social Security –II
XXIII. Graduated Pensions.
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