{"product_id":"9781836244059","title":"Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918 (Reappraisals in Irish History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe late nineteenth-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of rural\n\u003cbr\u003eIreland, attracting them with the promise of employment and economic\n\u003cbr\u003eindependence. For many, however, urban life meant economic precarity,\n\u003cbr\u003emarginalisation and destitution, with the workhouse as an all-too-present\n\u003cbr\u003ereality. Young families were particularly vulnerable, with the result that thousands\n\u003cbr\u003eof children found themselves confined within the workhouse walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the changing role of the Irish poor law in child\n\u003cbr\u003ewelfare in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century city. Taking as its\n\u003cbr\u003efocus Belfast, a burgeoning industrial and port city at the heart of a global\n\u003cbr\u003etrade network and a city deeply divided along political and confessional lines,\n\u003cbr\u003eit examines the ways in which that city's poorest children and their families engaged\n\u003cbr\u003ewith the poor law and used the workhouse as part of their economy of\n\u003cbr\u003emakeshifts. It examines the various spaces of the poor law - whether the\n\u003cbr\u003eworkhouse, the foster home, or the far reaches of empire - as sites of encounter\n\u003cbr\u003eand engagement between welfare authorities and the city's poorest families, and\n\u003cbr\u003eexplores the development of child welfare practice at a time of increasing\n\u003cbr\u003estate encroachment into the daily lives of poor children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867966681323,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":117.17,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781836244059-1.jpg?v=1781706558","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781836244059","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}