This text analyzes three related policy documents on the poor - the 1834 Poor Law Report and the majority and minority reports of the 1909 Royal Commission on the poor laws. It identifies the textual practices and discursive structures through which poverty and the poor were made into objects of knowledge and treatment, observing significant changes between 1834 and 1909, especially the minority report of the Webbs, in these respects.
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This text analyzes three related policy documents on the poor - the 1834 Poor Law Report and the majority and minority reports of the 1909 Royal Commission on the poor laws. It identifies the textual practices and discursive structures through which poverty and the poor were made into objects of knowledge and treatment, observing significant changes between 1834 and 1909, especially the minority report of the Webbs, in these respects.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN: 0751201197.
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, x, 221 pp. "The books takes as its case-studies three samples of a particular variety of policy document, the Royal Commission of Inquiry, and looks in detail at the 1834 Poor Law Report, & at the Majority & Minority Poor Law reports of 1909. It identifies the textual practices through which poverty was made into a "knowledge object" and shows how these practices authorized certain courses of administrative action" [-dustwrapper] Contents: The Concept of Textual Reality Construction; How the Reports Have Been Read: A Critique of Reading Methods; Reading & Reality Effects; Reality Effects in the Poor Law Reports; The Production of Knowledge Effects in the Reports; Textual Reality Construction & Political Critique.
