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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Why many Malaysian professionals prefer working in foreign countries instead of serving their own country In recent years‚ Malaysian professionals leave the country seek new life in a foreign country. There are many reasons why they prefer to working in other country such as high salary‚ technological infrastructure and balance life. The Malaysian professionals prefer to work in foreign country because the other country provide higher salary to their worker. Malaysian salaries are significantly
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Evidence showed that 30% of the urban population could be classified as poor‚ and 10% of the British population were living below the poverty line. Britain had experienced a massive rise in population‚ with populations in areas such as London‚ Lancashire and the West Midlands nearly doubling. Industrialisation also led to the rise of conurbations – densely populated urban areas. These results proved that the old system of the Poor Law could no longer cope. The Liberal Party sought after ‘National
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professional will also reviewed and the effectiveness of these services working together. To conclude‚ the four UK nations’ structures will then be compared and contrasted with two outlined in relation to how the professionals‚ service users and patients are affected. The welfare state The term welfare state is said to also mean the same as ‘state welfare’ and the state does not act alone but as a combination of assemblies working together. The public sector is used by the state with the ability
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such as poor houses‚ unjust courts‚ greedy management and the underworld. The Themes in "Oliver Twist" reflect these evils. With the rise in the level of poverty‚ poor houses run by parishes sprung up all over England to give relief to the poor. However‚ the conditions prevailing in the work houses were dismal and the management were insensitive to the feelings of the inmates. Instead of alleviating the sufferings of the paupers‚ they abused their rights as individuals and caused the poor further
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Access how factors within educational policies in Britain cause educational underachievement for the working class subculture. Educational policies have important effects on inequalities between class subcultures in education‚ I have picked out three of the educational polices between 1944 and 1988 that I believe has influenced working class achievement the most‚ the butler tripartite system in 1944‚ the comprehensive system in 1965+‚ and the ERA (new right policy) in 1988. The first policy that
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Under the new Act‚ the threat of the Union workhouse was intended to act as a discouragement to the able-bodied pauper. This soon became known as the "workhouse test". This meant that poor relief would only be granted to those that were desperate enough and brave enough to face entering the revolting conditions of the workhouse. Another aspect of the workhouses which discouraged people was if an able-bodied man entered the workhouse‚ his entire family had to go into the workhouse with him. However
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Ideologies of the Past - A brief overview. (a) The Elizabethan Poor Law The legal relief of poverty was first introduced after the demise of compulsory charity that followed the reformation. There were initial parish registers of the poor in 1552 and compulsory fund raising‚ through to 1601 with the advent of the Elizabethan Poor Law (43 Eliz I Cap. 2). This law oversaw the levying of taxes for the distribution of money and food to the poor but there was a heavy emphasis on hierarchy and charity as
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The cultural deprivation theory argues that many working class and black children do not acquire the basic values‚ attitudes and skills needed for educational success through primary socialisation in the family. Many cultural deprivation theorists claim that working-class families inadequately socialise their children and therefore their children are ‘culturally deprived’. There are three main aspects to cultural deprivation‚ one of them being intellectual development. This refers to the
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angered many people as a large number of them did not attend church and did not feel they should be paying this tithe‚ often the fee for the tithe was far greater than what a poor person could afford. The modification of the Poor law angered many laborers‚ this meant that many of the unemployed could no longer claim the poor rates. There was also the new King‚ William IV who was much more liberal minded than his predecessor which created a great demand for political reform and eventually a general
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