TY - BOOK AU - Charlesworth,Lorie TI - Welfare`s forgotten past : a socio legal history of the poor law SN - 9780415477383 AV - KD3299 .C48 2010 U1 - 344.3250942 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - England and Wales KW - Poor Relief Act (1601) KW - Poor laws KW - England KW - History KW - Public welfare KW - Law and legislation N1 - "A GlassHouse book."; Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : a history of forgetting -- Rights of the poor : towards a negative modernity -- Socio-legal juristic narratives : poor law's legal foundations -- Deconstructing from the negative : a critical historiography of legal [mis]conceptions -- Lived experience : the poor "speak" -- Paupers as textual analysis : exploring the settlement entitlement through little dorrit -- Lived experience : poor law administration -- Developments and transformation over time : dichotomising the poor -- The road to beveridge : eforming welfare -- End thoughts : on the transience of legal memory ER -