Trust Among Strangers
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Trust Among Strangers

Friendly Societies in Modern Britain

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eBook - PDF

Trust Among Strangers

Friendly Societies in Modern Britain

About this book

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the internal migration of a growing population transformed Britain into a 'society of strangers'. The coming and going of so many people wreaked havoc on the institutions through which Britons had previously addressed questions of collective responsibility. Poor relief, charity briefs, box clubs, and the like relied on personal knowledge of reputations for their effectiveness and struggled to accommodate the increasing number of unknown migrants. Trust among Strangers re-centers problems of trust in the making of modern Britain and examines the ways in which upper-class reformers and working-class laborers fashioned and refashioned the concept and practice of friendly society to make promises of collective responsibility effective - even among strangers. The result is a profoundly new account of how Britons navigated their way into the modern world.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781108472524
eBook ISBN
9781108675215
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Maps and Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: New Beginnings
  10. 1 Friendly Society before Friendly Societies
  11. 2 Friendly Societies and the Meaning of the New Poor Law
  12. 3 The Battle between Savings Banks and Friendly Societies
  13. 4 Trusting Institutions: Making the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity
  14. 5 Trusting Numbers: Sociability and Actuarial Science in the Manchester Unity
  15. Epilogue: Alternative Endings
  16. Index