First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part One The Background; Chapter 1 The Causes of Poverty; Chapter 2 The Extent of the Problem; Part Two Descriptive Analysis; Chapter 3 Early Tudor Legislation; Chapter 4 The Elizabethan Poor Laws; Chapter 5 Urban Experiments in the Suppression of Vagrancy and the Relief of the Poor; Chapter 6 The Contribution of the IndividualpartThree AssessmentpartFour Documents;

John Pound Lecturer in Education, University of East Anglia