Trabajo, Pobreza y Beneficenciaen torno a las Memorias sobre el pauperismo de Alexis de Tocqueville
ISSN: 1575-0361, 1989-063X
Year of publication: 2008
Issue Title: 1808, crisis y soberanía
Issue: 19
Pages: 201-230
Type: Article
More publications in: Historia y política: Ideas, procesos y movimientos sociales
Abstract
The study of Tocqueville’s Memoirs on Pauperism is used by the author as an opportunity to highlight the importance of the idea of pauperism in the 19th century. The possibilities this concept offers for a better interpretation of the relationship between poverty, work and assistance as it was constructed at the time are also explored. From this perspective a more accomplished understanding of the limits and capabilities of the system of assistance in the 19th century is possible.