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Poor laws

Here are entered works on the system of relief for the poor that developed in England in the 16th century and was maintained with various changes until after World War II.

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• Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
• A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor, by Matthew Hale (text at McMaster)
• A Dissertation on the Poor Laws, by Joseph Townsend (HTML at McMaster)
• Poor Law Commissioners' Report of 1834, by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cottage Economy; To Which is Added, The Poor Man's Friend (New York: J. Doyle, 1833), by William Cobbett (Gutenberg text)

• Labour on the Land: Containing a Plan for the Employment of the Destitute Poor on Agricultural Occupations; With Observations on the Working of the Present Systems (1846), by S. W. Blackall (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Special Report of the Board of State Commissioners for the General Supervision of Charitable, Penal, Pauper, and Reformatory Institutions, by Michigan State Board of Corrections and Charities (page images at MOA)

• Speech of Hon. George A. Gordon, of Chatham, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws, Passed by the Congress of the Confederate States, by George Anderson Gordon (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations (with commentary by the publisher; New York: Long House, c1954), by Norman Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
  • multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria: From the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Right Hon. Earl Cowper, K.G. (2 volumes in Latin with English notes; London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897), ed. by Stuart A. Moore
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Cartulaire des Abbayes de Saint-Pierre de la Couture et de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (cartulary in Latin, with introduction and notes in French; Le Mans: Typ. E. Monnoyer, 1881), ed. by Congrégation de France (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Richard Herr (HTML at UC Press)

• Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Richard Herr (HTML at UC Press)

• The Battle with the Slum, by Jacob A. Riis (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• Misery and Its Causes (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edward T. Devine (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to a Clergyman, on Institutions for Ameliorating the Condition of the People, Chiefly from Paris in the Autumn of 1845 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1846), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Spiral Down to Poverty: Rural Communities in Crisis (ACSJC occasional paper #15; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1993), by Noela Lippert (PDF in Australia)

• Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by David Nemer (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by David Nemer (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Poverty in Canada (second edition, 1996), by Christopher A. Sarlo (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• Poverty in Canada (second edition, 1996), by Christopher A. Sarlo (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• The Plutus of Aristophanes, Translated into English Verse, With an Introduction and Notes (London: J. Murray, 1912), by Aristophanes, ed. by William Rann Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1912), by Booker T. Washington and Robert Ezra Park (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Outcast: or, Virtue and Faith (New York: M. Doolady, 1861), by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)
• A Son of the State (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text)
• The Reigning Belle: A Society Novel (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1885), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
• Aunt Sara's Wooden God (College Park, MD: McGrath Pub. Co, c1938), by Mercedes Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1914), by Patrick MacGill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Underclass + 10: Charles Murray and the British Underclass, 1990-2000 (c2001), by Charles A. Murray, contrib. by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate (c1996), ed. by Ruth Lister, contrib. by Charles A. Murray (PDF at Civitas)
• The Canker at the Heart: Being Studies From the Life of the Poor in the Year of Grace 1905 (London: E. Grant Richards, 1905), by L. Cope Cornford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Giving Alms No Charity, by Daniel Defoe (text at McMaster)
• Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Industrial Condition of the Poor (sixth edition, 1906), by J. A. Hobson (Gutenberg text)
• In Darkest England, and The Way Out (London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, ca. 1890), by William Booth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Darkest England, and The Way Out, by William Booth (Gutenberg text)
• A Letter Addressed to Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P., in Consequence of the Unqualified Approbation Expressed by Him in the House of Commons, of Mr. Lancaster's System of Education (London: Printed for J. Hatchard et al., 1807), by John Bowles
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mildmay: or, The Story of the First Deaconess Institution (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1893), by Harriette J. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cause of the Greeks: A Discourse, Delivered in St. Paul's Church, on the Evening of February 26, 1827, at the Request of the Committee for the Relief of the Greeks (Philadelphia: W. Stavely, 1827), by Gregory T. Bedell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• City Sparrows, and Who Fed Them (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1876), by Ruth Lynn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• In Wild Rose Time (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1894), by Amanda M. Douglas, illust. by John Goss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• Taking a Stand on Poverty (c1991), by Helen P. Rogers (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)
• Bringing In the Sheaves: Transforming Poverty Into Productivity (Atlanta: American Vision Press, c1985), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Horace, Priest of the Poor (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1985), by John S. Monagan (PDF at Georgetown)
• Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, Ladies as Well as Gentlemen, on the Character, Conduct, Situation, and Prospects of Those Whose Sole Dependence for Subsistence Is on the Labour of Their Hands (third edition, 1833), by Mathew Carey (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)

• Why Abortion? The Myth of Choice for Women Who are Poor, by Anne Nicol Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)

• Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.