List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Policing society: government, discipline and social policy 2. Social policy, liberalism and the mid-Victorian state 3. Rational landscapes? the geography of Poor Law government 4. Designing the workhouse system, 1834-1884 5. Building the workhouse system, 1834-1884 6. Classifying the poor: maps of pauper-land 7. The politics of territory: the anti-Poor Law movement 8. From township to Union? the geography of Poor Law administration at a local level 9. The workhouse system from a local perspective Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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