The Idea of Poverty

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Subjects: 18th century, Industrialisatie, Poverty, Condiciones económicas, 19th century, Political aspects of Poor, England, Conditions économiques, Pauvres, Histoire, Sociale filosofie, Economic conditions, Industrialisierung, Armut, Armoede, Economic history, Pobres, Historia, History, Poor

Description: Discusses the views of great thinkers from 1750 to 1850--including Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, and Friedrich Engels--toward the condition of the poor in England