Growing old in England 1878 to 1948
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1992
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Fogerty, Jacquelyn Ruth
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This thesis deals with the experience of old age for working-class old people in England in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers a time period from the beginning of the
agitation for old age pensions in 1878 to the implementation of the Beveridge Plan in 1948, thus
extending over the last three generations of the Poor Law and the decades generally thought to
mark the birth of the Welfare State. The thesis is in three parts. The first deals with age and
employment, the second with the living conditions and health of the elderly at home and in
institutions, and the third with old people and the community.
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