First Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring Into the Housing of the Working Classes
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 1148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 1148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. Walker Hanlon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2024-09-10
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0691213410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why Britain’s attempt at small government proved unable to cope with the challenges of the modern world In the nineteenth century, as Britain attained a leading economic and political position in Europe, British policymakers embarked on a bold experiment with small and limited government. By the outbreak of the First World War, however, this laissez-faire philosophy of government had been abandoned and the country had taken its first steps toward becoming a modern welfare state. This book tells the story of Britain’s laissez-faire experiment, examining why it was done, how it functioned, and why it was ultimately rejected in favor of a more interventionist form of governance. Blending insights from modern economic theory with a wealth of historical evidence, W. Walker Hanlon traces the slow expansion of government intervention across a broad spectrum of government functions in order to understand why and how Britain gave up on laissez-faire. It was not abandoned because Britain’s leaders lost faith in small government as some have suggested, nor did it collapse under the growing influence of working-class political power. Instead, Britain’s move away from small government was a pragmatic and piecemeal response—by policymakers who often deeply believed in laissez-faire—to the economic forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution.
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes
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Published: 1885
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 570
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ciara Breathnach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-05-26
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 019263528X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical frameworks to examine what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives. Coroners' inquests are a combination of eyewitness testimony, expert medico-legal language, detailed minutiae of people, places, and occupational identities pinned to a moment in time. Thus they have a simultaneous capacity to reveal histories from both above and below. Rich in geographical, socio-economic, cultural, class, and medical detail, these records collated in a liminal setting about the hour of death bear incredible witness to what has often been termed 'ordinary lives'. The subjects of Dr Byrne's court were among the poorest in Ireland and, apart from common medical causes problems linked to lower socio-economic groups, this volume covers preventable cases of workplace accidents, neglect, domestic abuse, and homicide.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 564
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jerry White
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-06-08
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 1446477118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.