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Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts (2008)

Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts (2008)

by Martin, K
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The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.

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Pub dateApr 1, 2008
ISBN-10023020189X
ISBN-139780230201897
LanguageEnglish
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