A History of the Scotch Poor Law in Connexion with The Condition..

by Sir George Nicholls

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Nicholls, Sir George. A History of the Scotch Poor Law in Connexion with the Condition of the People. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1856. Reprint. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1967. x, 288 pp. Hardcover, ligt shelfwear. 20. * Nicholls was a pioneering poor-law reformer and administrator. While Great Britain's Poor Law Commissioner he drafted the Irish Poor-Law Act 1832 . One of the first to assert that relief bred a culture of dependency and a resistance

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