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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Vagrancy Legislation -- 3 Tudor Response to theTravelling Poor -- 4 The Travelling Poor in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 5 Victorian Attitudes -- 6 Vagrancy around the World Wars -- 7 Homelessness and the Welfare State -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Poor Law Crusade against Outdoor Relief -- The 1834 Poor Law Amendment -- Poor Law administrative changes, 1834-1869 -- National development of the crusade -- 3 The Provincial Crusade: Results and Reactions -- The selection of Poor Law unions for analysis -- Anti-outdoor relief unions and their specific rules -- Results of the crusade in anti-outdoor relief unions -- Unions adjacent to provincial centres with a society practising methodological charity -- Discussion on the mixed responses to the crusade -- 4 Victorian Ideology, Early Attempts to Organize Charity, and the Beginnings of the Charity Organisation Society -- Reforming ideas, the persistence of outdoor relief and the formation of the COS -- Early attempts to organize charity -- The formation and development of the London Charity Organisation Society -- 5 The Emergence of Provincial Charity Organisation Societies and Responses, I870-1890 -- The development of provincial Charity Organisation Societies -- The provincial COSs and Poor Law guardians -- Relationships with other charities -- The COS and the clergy -- Provident dispensaries -- Relationships with the London COS -- 6 The Activities of Provincial Charity Organisation Societies, 1870-1890 -- Categorization of applicants and comparative relief values -- Dividing the deserving poor from the undeserving -- Methods of COS relief to the deserving -- Exceptional distress -- The undeserving: cautionary procedures -- Lack of COS volunteers -- Organizational finances and administration costs -- 7 Ideological Change in Late Victorian Britain: The Response of the Provincial Charity Organisation Societies and the Local Government Board -- COS adherence to principles -- Changing circumstances and attitudes.