Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918

The late nineteenth-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of rural Ireland, attracting them with...
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Author: Olwen Purdue
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Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918 by Purdue, Olwen

Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918

€350,60

Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918

€350,60
Author: Olwen Purdue
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The late nineteenth-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of rural Ireland, attracting them with the promise of employment and economic independence. For many, however, urban life meant economic precarity, marginalisation and destitution, with the workhouse as an all-too-present reality. Young families were particularly vulnerable, with the result that thousands of children found themselves confined within the workhouse walls.

This book explores the changing role of the Irish poor law in child welfare in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century city. Taking as its focus Belfast, a burgeoning industrial and port city at the heart of a global trade network and a city deeply divided along political and confessional lines, it examines the ways in which that city's poorest children and their families engaged with the poor law and used the workhouse as part of their economy of makeshifts. It examines the various spaces of the poor law - whether the workhouse, the foster home, or the far reaches of empire - as sites of encounter and engagement between welfare authorities and the city's poorest families, and explores the development of child welfare practice at a time of increasing state encroachment into the daily lives of poor children.

Author: Olwen Purdue
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 01/02/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781800855427

About the Author
Olwen Purdue is Professor of Irish Social History at Queen's University Belfast.

Georgina Laragy is Glasnevin Trust Assistant Professor in Public History and Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin.

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