Knowing the Poor: Case Study in Textual Reality Construction (International Library of Phenomenology & Moral Science) - Hardcover

Green, Bryan S.

 
9780710092823: Knowing the Poor: Case Study in Textual Reality Construction (International Library of Phenomenology & Moral Science)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0710092822 ISBN 13: 9780710092823
Publisher: Law Book Co of Australasia, 1983

Synopsis

This text analyzes three related policy documents on the poor - the 1834 Poor Law Report and the majority and minority reports of the 1909 Royal Commission on the poor laws. It identifies the textual practices and discursive structures through which poverty and the poor were made into objects of knowledge and treatment, observing significant changes between 1834 and 1909, especially the minority report of the Webbs, in these respects. In these, as in all policy reports, possibilities of thought and action are strongly constrained by taken-for-granted ways of producing rational knowledge objects in literary practice.

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Publisher
Law Book Co of Australasia
Publication date
1983
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0710092822
ISBN 13 
9780710092823
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232

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