'I think we ought not to acknowledge them [paupers] as that encourages them to write': the administrative state, power and the Victorian pauper
'I think we ought not to acknowledge them [paupers] as that encourages them to write': the administrative state, power and the Victorian pauper
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“我认为我们不应该承认他们[穷人]，因为这会鼓励他们写作”：行政国家、权力和维多利亚时代的穷人
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10.1080/03071022.2021.1892301
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2021
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Carter N
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本文的核心是三个问题，我们认为这三个问题对于理解穷人法的性质及其在穷人生活中的作用至关重要。首先，使新济贫法发挥作用所需的中央行政结构和程序实际上有什么“新”的？第二，这些进程如何随着时间的推移而变化，特别是中央当局本身在多大程度上直接与穷人接触？第三，中央当局的程序和结构是否提供了一个空间，让穷人能够学习更好地驾驭新济贫法，并行使自己的代理权？使用一个样本的信件直接写的“中心”的贫民在英格兰中部地区，以及随后的书信的反应，中央当局，我们跟踪的情况下，该中心有责任回应穷人的信作家，因为他们没有其他人。在1834年后的时期，反对地方福利制度的权利仍然很强，中央当局通过他们的回应，提供了一个众所周知的代理空间。
At the heart of this article stand three questions that we believe are crucial to an understanding of the character of the poor law and its role in the lives of the poor who had to navigate its rules. First, what was actually ‘new’ about the central administrative structures and processes required to make the New Poor Law function? Second, how did those processes change over time and, in particular, how far did the central authority itself engage with the poor directly? Third, did the processes and structures of the central authority afford a space in which the poor could learn to better navigate the New Poor Law and exercise their own agency? Using a sample of letters written directly to ‘the Centre’ by paupers in the English midlands, and the subsequent epistolary responses of the central authorities, we trace a situation in which the Centre was duty bound to respond to poor letter writers much as they did to everyone else. Rights to contest local welfare regimes remained strong in the post-1834 period, and the central authorities, through their responses, afforded a space of agency that came to be well known.