The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteen...
Woolf, Stuart (Stuart Woolf dec'd as advised by daughter Deborah Woolf sf cases 01896460 & 01911615 10.6.21 royalties transferred to Deborah Woolf Se942828 SF case 01911615)
First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking early nineteenth-century Italy as a special study, it uses the exceptionally rich documentary sources from this time to examine such issues as charity, repression, the reasons why families suf...