Knowing the Poor: A Case-Study in Textual Reality Construction

Green, Bryan S.

Verlag: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1983), London, 1983

Beschreibung

orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, x, 221 pp "The books takes as its case-studies three samples of a particular variety of policy document, the Royal Commission of Inquiry, and looks in detail at the 1834 Poor Law Report, & at the Majority & Minority Poor Law reports of 1909. It identifies the textual practices through which poverty was made into a "knowledge object" and shows how these practices authorized certain courses of administrative action" [ - dustwrapper] Contents: The Concept of Textual Reality Construction; How the Reports Have Been Read: A Critique of Reading Methods; Reading & Reality Effects; Reality Effects in the Poor Law Reports; The Production of Knowledge Effects in the Reports; Textual Reality Construction & Political Critique. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010530

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Knowing the Poor: A Case-Study in Textual Reality Construction
• Verlag: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1983), London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1983
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag