The State of the Poor by Frederick Morton Eden - 9781108036894

The State of the PoorOr, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period\nAuthor(s): Frederick Morton Eden\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108036894, 978-1108036894\nSynopsis\nSir Frederick Morton Eden [tel] was an English writer and a pioneer social researcher. Eden studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and subsequently worked in banking and insurance, inheriting a baronetcy from his father, who had been the governor of the American province of Maryland, in 1784. Arguing that poverty could not be tackled without knowing what it actually meant to be poor, this innovative three-volume work is an attempt to define what poverty meant in concrete terms. It is packed with data from across England, divided by county, and covering factors such as food prices, wages, diet and mortality rates. Volume 3 presents the second set of reports on living conditions of the p.