Author: Green, Bryan S.
Title: Knowing the Poor: A Case-Study in Textual Reality Construction
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1983). orig.boards. 22x14cm, x, 221 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ 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.

Keywords: Ethnomethodology, Sociology, Research, Semiotics, Canada, Poverty, Poor Law, Social History, Textual