Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report

"Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes" by Nassau William Senior is an early 19th-century historical examination that introduces collected reports about how different countries in America and Europe cared for their poor. The book looks at the laws and actions taken to help people living in poverty, showing the good and bad parts of these systems. It explains that the goal is to teach people and leaders about the help given to the poor in different places. Government officials in Britain collected information from countries around the world, with help from people like diplomats, to learn about their poor laws as they explain the variety of ways countries supported their poor, the book suggests it will compare how well these different methods worked for working-class people in different societies.