SOCIAL POLICY THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH SOCIAL POLICY This class will 1. Provide a broad overview where we start at the 1500's and end up at about the 1900's by saying When did it start? Whose responsibility was it but why do we care? What relevance is it to us? As students do we need to know this? After all we are not history students. If we need to know it, the question we could be …
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…When writing about the poor law it is not so much as a history lesson, or why it failed. The poor law did fail. It could be said that it failed because it was 18th century politics dealing with what is now a 19th century problem. It could have failed because of the conflict between rural and urban societies. It could have failed because of the class war, about the middle number classes taking control.