Poverty, Migration, and Settlement in the Industrial Revolution: Sojourners' Narratives

"This is a highly significant and original contribution to poor law studies. . . . It reveals the inner workings and human dimension of the settlement laws in a way that no other work I am aware of has managed to do. In a broader sense, it vividly re-creates the lives of individuals caught up in the wrenching social changes and moral dilemmas that accompanied industrialization."--Anthony Brundage, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

221 pages. 1989. Cloth: $28.00 USA, $32.00 elsewhere, postpaid.

ISBN 0-930664-09-4