Sentence examples for of poor relief from inspiring English sources

The paper examines these potentialities through an investigation of the accounting regime attending the system of poor relief in Victorian England and Wales.

The policies of 19th-century political liberalism included free trade, sound money (the gold standard), balanced budgets, and minimum levels of poor relief.

The Poor Law Amendment of 1834 standardized the system of poor relief throughout Britain, and groups of parishes were combined into unions responsible for workhouses.

Ian Krol earned the win despite being part of poor relief in the ninth that allowed the Pirates to erase a 7-3 deficit.

Professor Boyer's current research examines various aspects of labor markets in Victorian Britain, including trends in working class living standards, the economics of poor relief and private charity, and unemployment and underemployment from 1870 to 1913.

But it is the more recent use of "welfare" as a noun, synonymous with social security, that is problematic because of its association with a stigmatised US-style residual form of poor relief.

The years between 1845 and 1849, known as the Crisis of the 1840s, were particularly hard in Flanders where harvests failed and a third of the population became dependent on poor relief.

During the recession that followed the panic that followed the earthquake, the number of people applying for poor relief in New York tripled; in Philadelphia, it increased nearly fivefold.

The Dow Law imposed an annual tax on businesses in the alcohol trade; most of the proceeds would go for poor relief and to the police fund.

Perhaps one million people were receiving some kind of parish poor relief by the end of the century.

The system of civic poor relief introduced in Elberfeld in 1853 was long regarded as a model throughout the world.