No Fixed Abode : A History of Responses to the Roofless and the Rootless in Britain -- Hardback

Humphreys, Robert

Palgrave Macmillan（1999/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 商品コード 9780333738467
• DDC分類 305.5690941

Full Description

Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces how for centuries emergent laws have combated alleged threats from unruly vagrants while largely ignoring causal factors like economic fluctuation, bad harvests, disease and war. It is argued that only educational and social reform will alleviate the homeless plight.

Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Early Vagrancy Legislation Tudor Responses The Travelling Poor in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Victorian Attitudes Vagrancy Around the World Wars Homelessness and the Welfare State Conclusion Bibliography Index