Download or read book Hard and Unreal Advice written by Kathleen Martin and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.