Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society?

by Alexis de Tocqueville

Book Overview

L]egal charity has not only taken freedom of movement from the English poor but also from those who are threatened by poverty. -from "Memoir on Pauperism" Inspired by a trip to England at a time when that nation was in the throes of political, social, and economic strife and poverty was rampant, political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville developed his theories on civil society as it relates to its poorest members and set them down in this 1835 essay...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596053631
• ISBN13: 9781596053632
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"