The memoir on pauperism translated by seymour drescher appeared in his edition of tocqueville and beaumont on social reform new york harper torchbooks 1968 pp 1 27 drescher is university professor of history at the university of pittsburgh he is a member of the commission nationale pour la publication des oeuvres dalexis de tocqueville and the author of tocqueville and . Memoir on pauperism does public charity produce an idle and dependent class of society ebook written by alexis de tocqueville read this book using google play books app on your pc android ios devices download for offline reading highlight bookmark or take notes while you read memoir on pauperism does public charity produce an idle and dependent class of society. Immediately after completing the first volume of democracy in america alexis de tocqueville wrote his memoir on pauperism it was inspired by a visit to england two years earlier and was surely in his mind while he was writing democracy in the memoir tocqueville seeks to understand why the most impoverished countries of europe in his time have the fewest paupers while the most opulent . Memoir on pauperism book read 15 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers legal charity has not only taken freedom of movement from the. The memoir on pauperism delivered to the royal academic society of cherbourg in 1835 and printed in the proceedings of the academy was not included in the collected edition of tocquevilles works published soon after his death reprinted in a french academic journal in 1911 it was little known until its translation into english by