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

Humphreys, R.

 
9780333738467: No Fixed Abode: A History of Responses to the Roofless and the Rootless in Britain
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0333738462 ISBN 13: 9780333738467
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

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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.

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ROBERT HUMPHREYS trained first as an engineer, prior to a wide-ranging career including applied research, university lecturing, consultancy and senior management in the private sector. He now teaches in the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr Humphreys is the author of Sin, Organised Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0333738462
ISBN 13 
9780333738467
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
235
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