Abstract
Abstract During the 1770s and 1780s no social issue excited more debate than poverty, and no topic was more vigorously discussed in Hamburg than poor relief reform. If at first few people envisioned more than a belated tinkering with the existing system of poor relief, by the late 1780s most of those involved acknowledged the futility of stopgap measures and admitted, sometimes be-grudgingly, the need for a total refurbishing. The truly momentous expansion of commerce, the quickened economic tempo, the narrowing gap separating the working poor from indigence
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