Poor Women and Children in the European Past

Edited by John Henderson, Richard Wall

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About the Book

Women and children have always featured prominently among the critically disadvantaged. They have been the persistently dominant clientele of welfare agencies.
This original collection provides a comparative survey of the poverty experienced by women and children in the European past by testing the applicability of the outline of the poverty cycle. Some of the issues covered are:
* the relationship between family and demographic systems and the level of poverty
* the relative generosity of public and private charity provided by a range of European societies