Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Victorian social science in a twentieth-century world -- Introduction to Victorian poverty studies -- Two royal commissions -- Protestant paradigms in Victorian poverty studies -- Political economy and the new poor law -- From political economy to social science -- Ignoble savages on relief: social Darwinism in late Victorian poverty studies -- Science and pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian poverty studies -- Three case studies in a priori social science -- Unanswered questions, unasked questions, and an experimental counter-hypothesis -- Why critique the Victorian social science of poverty?.
