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Mercedes Barrionuevo,María Luján Ganuzape until after c. 1840. In a pamphlet published more than 250 years ago, Thomas Alcock (1752, p. 21) highlighted the exceptional nature of the English case:.The objective of this book is to address an old question: Why was England’s system of poor relief unique, or why, in the words of Alcock, did the English alone have ‘a law to force charity’?

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ng poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.978-1-349-35472-6978-0-230-59138-7

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Computer Security – ESORICS 2024ntial assistance. It is the intent of this chapter to consider at a general level why a highly developed, publicly supported poor relief system was not operational outside England, in some cases until after the mid-nineteenth century.

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Capitalist and Precapitalist Societies,, notably Karl Polanyi, have focused their attention on capitalism, yet there are problems with these approaches as well. Given my argument that one must come to terms with capitalism in order to comprehend the history of support to the English poor, it is necessary, then, to draw out the main features of this mode of production.

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Conclusion: Capitalism and the Origins of the Welfare State,ransition to capitalism. I conclude with a brief observation on capital’s never-ending need to ‘reform’ social assistance, pointing to the case of the 1996 changes in the United States that ended ‘welfare as we know it’.

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,English Poor Relief, c. 1350–1795,dified shortly after 1600 and which remained in place down to the era of the French Revolution. This will serve as the basis for my own interpretation, in the last section, where I argue that poor relief was a substitute for access to land and common rights.