Thomas Jefferson on poverty in England
Scholarly interest has been mild in Jefferson’s understanding of poverty in his own country and elsewhere, and the ones addressing the issue have paid less attention to its national variations. This essay, therefore, aims at exploring the nature of poverty and poor relief in England as Jefferson con...
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SZTE IEAS
Szeged
2024
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| Sorozat: | Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József nominatae : papers in english and american studies
28 Papers in English and American studies : Tomus XXVIII. - New Horizons in English and American Studies: Papers from the Doctoral Program 28 |
| Kulcsszavak: | Thomas Jefferson, Szociálpolitika - Anglia - 19. sz., Szegénység - USA - 19. sz. |
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| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/86794 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | Scholarly interest has been mild in Jefferson’s understanding of poverty in his own country and elsewhere, and the ones addressing the issue have paid less attention to its national variations. This essay, therefore, aims at exploring the nature of poverty and poor relief in England as Jefferson considered it and argues that he basically addressed it through the perspective of the country’s economic and social structure as well as its alleged aspiration to become a major world power. He held that such ambitions indirectly though, but surely resulted in the poverty of laborers in Britain as well as paupers serving such ambitions. Thus, these social groups also played a significant role in regenerating poverty there. Yet, in doing so, Jefferson seems to have missed major features of the poor and the poor relief system under the Old Poor Law, which, in many ways, functioned similarly to the one that formed the basis of American localized poor relief. In the final analysis, Jefferson’s vision of the social and economic system of the country was a major reason for his ignoring several types of the poor in England as well as survival strategies of the indigent of England outside the system of poor-relief. |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 172-184 |
| ISBN: | 978-963-688-029-3 |
| ISSN: | 0230-2780 |