Knowing the Poor, A Case-study in Textual Reality Construction

Green, Bryan S.

ISBN 10: 0710092822 / ISBN 13: 9780710092823

Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1983

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221pp. The International Library of Phenomenology and Moral Sciences.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowing the Poor, A Case-study in Textual Reality Construction
• Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710092822
• ISBN 13: 9780710092823
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology

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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.