The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age
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x, 595 pp. When did poverty cease to be a 'natural' condition and become a 'social problem?' When did the pauper become distinguished from the poor? What image of the poor made one group 'deserving' and another 'undeserving,' and how did one or the other emerge as the dominant social problem?
