Life for the poor in Elizabethan England was very harsh. Unemployment and rapid price inflation increased causing many villagers to leave their homes and come to the towns to look for work. However‚ they often could not find employment and ended up begging in the streets. Elizabethan Poor Laws‚ enacted in 1601‚ were incredibly beneficial in uniting the community to provide care and nurture for the qualifying less fortunate. These laws set a critical foundation for Britain’s welfare system and established
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why the New Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) was so controversial. There were many arguments raised about the poor law amendment act of 1834‚ this Act was thought to be the most contentious piece of legislation passed during the era of the Whig’s. At the time‚ it was a lot about saving money‚ the upper class did not want to pay towards the poor law‚ as they believed they were lazy and unworthy. The taxpayers‚ and ratepayers believed it to be wrong they should be paying to help the poor. The workhouse
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Was the New Poor Law successful? There were many advantages of the New Poor Law‚ including a decrease in cost of poor relief‚ Education for children who lived within poor families and more able-bodied poor people working for their money. The Decrease in cost of poor relief meant that less people were willing to claim poor relief‚ as it was a lot less glamorous than it used to be. Less money was spent on the quality of food and housing within the workhouses‚ which meant that people held it in
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agree with the three main doctrines.Malthus’s principle Ricardo’s "iron law of wages" and Bentham’s doctrine-----------The Act has been described as "the classic example of the fundamental Whig-Benthamite reforming legislation of the period"‚ based on three main doctrines: Malthus’s principle that population increased faster than resources unless checked‚ Ricardo’s "iron law of wages" and Bentham’s doctrine that people did what was pleasant‚ and would tend to claim relief rather than working. http://wapedia
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new poor law was resisted far more successfully in the north than the south from 1834 to 1847. Looking at the sources individually you cant see whether or not the north was resisted the changes better than the people in the south. But when you look at the resistance in the north described in source C and D it seems to be more intense with more organisation to it too. Causing a greater effect than the fairly mild opposition in the south. Sorces A and B makes the reistance to the new poor law seem
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Elizabethan Poor Laws and the Unworthy Poor Tara McFadden Indiana University School of Social Work Abstract Beginning in the Elizabethan Era‚ unworthy poor was a label placed on able bodied people that appeared to choose to not work. They were often treated harshly and in extreme cases‚ put to death (Shelly‚ 2011). In today’s society such treatment would be unheard of. The act of even labeling this group of people or other groups is discouraged and even against the NASW’s The Code of Ethics
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The New Poor Law what were the Aims and Motivations This essay is looking to explain the aims of and the motivations behind the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act‚ also the links to the Emancipation Act‚ Malthusian and Benthamite influence on the Act. The outcome on history will not change but just maybe a clearer understanding of the reasoning behind the changes. The first thing to look at is the amended Act itself presented by Nassau Senior and Edwin Chadwick the report took the view that people
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become “responsible to the law for their crimes” (Hart‚
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main aim of poor law administration after 1834 was to deter the able-bodied poor from seeking poor relief? The report compiled by the 1832 commission of enquiry displays its strong belief that the able bodied poor were and had to be put in their ’proper position’ as the reform of the poor law was based on the commission’s findings this could suggest that they agree with the interpretation that main aim of the poor law administration after 1834 was to deter the able-bodied from seeking poor relief.
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attitudes towards the poor in Europe from 1450-1700. Many people will have different attitudes but I will narrow it down to the Royals who tend to have negative attitudes‚ the Church authorities who have positive attitudes and the common folk‚ and show their views and responses. Most of the negatives attitudes come from people of high government positions. One says that “Idleness is harmful to the public good and should not be tolerated. Idlers should not be considered as poor. This person also believes
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