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some 1,912 parish and corporation workhouses had been established in England and Wales, housing almost 100,000 paupers. Perhaps one million people were receiving some kind of parish poor relief by the end of the century. Although many parishes and pamphlet writers expected to earn money from the labour of the poor in workhouses, the vast majority of people obliged to take up residence in workhouses were ill, elderly, or children whose labour proved largely unprofitable. The demands, needs and expectations of the poor also ensured that workhouses came to take on the character of general social policy institutions, combining the functions of creche, and night shelter, geriatric ward and orphanage. In 1782,

930:. Despite the aspirations of the reformers, the New Poor Law was unable to make the Workhouse as bad as life outside. The primary problem was that in order to make the diet of the workhouse inmates "less eligible" than what they could expect outside, it would be necessary to starve the inmates beyond an acceptable level. It was for this reason that other ways were found to deter entrance to the workhouses. These measures ranged from the introduction of prison-style uniforms to the segregation of inmates into separate yards for men, women, boys, and girls. 604: 266:

then sworn to return to the place in which he was authorised to beg. An able-bodied beggar was to be whipped, and sworn to return to the place where he was born, or last dwelt for the space of three years, and there put himself to labour. Still no provision was made, though, for the healthy man simply unable to find work. All able-bodied unemployed were put into the same category. Those unable to find work had a stark choice: starve or break the law. In 1535, a bill was drawn up calling for the creation of a system of

683: 4792: 1088: 33: 171:, when an estimated 30–40% of the population died. The decline in population left surviving workers in great demand in the agricultural economy. Landowners had to face the choice of raising wages to compete for workers or letting their lands go unused. Wages for labourers rose, and this forced up prices across the economy as goods became more expensive to produce. An attempt to rein in prices, the ordinance (and subsequent acts, such the 986: 414: 770:(relief given outside of a workhouse) should be abolished – was never implemented. The report recommended separate workhouses for the aged, infirm, children, able-bodied females and able-bodied males. The report also stated that parishes should be grouped into unions in order to spread the cost of workhouses and a central authority should be established in order to enforce these measures. The 144: 729:, which subsidised low wages without relief. The report concluded that the existing Poor Laws undermined the prosperity of the country by interfering with the natural laws of supply and demand, that the existing means of poor relief allowed employers to force down wages, and, that poverty itself was inevitable. 1163:

these workers were provided with outdoor relief. One aspect of the Poor Law that continued to cause resentment was that the burden of poor relief was not shared equally by rich and poor areas but, rather, fell most heavily on those areas in which poverty was at its worst. This was a central issue in the

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presents the first revisionist analysis of the Poor Law in "The Myth of the Old Poor Law and the making of the New", commenting that the Old Poor Law did not reduce the efficiency of agricultural workers, lower wages, depress rents or compound the burden on rate payers. Blaug argues that Old Poor Law

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called for offenders to be burned through the ear for a first offence, and that persistent beggars should be hanged; however, the Act also made the first clear distinction between the "professional beggar" and those unemployed through no fault of their own. Early in her reign, Elizabeth I also passed

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of 1351) required that everyone who could work did; that wages were kept at pre-plague levels; and that food was not overpriced. Workers saw these shortage conditions as an opportunity to flee employers and become freemen, so Edward III passed additional laws to provide for the punishment of the wave

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in 1552 on the condition that the citizens of London pay for their maintenance. However, the city was unable to raise enough revenue from voluntary contributions, so it instituted the first definite compulsory Poor Rate in 1547, which replaced Sunday collections in church with a mandatory collection

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through Parliament in 1723. The act gave legislative authority for the establishment of parochial workhouses, by both single parishes and as joint ventures between two or more parishes. More importantly, the act helped to publicise the idea of establishing workhouses to a national audience. By 1776

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A pauper applicant had to prove a settlement. If he could not, he was removed to the parish nearest to his birthplace, or where he prove some connection; some paupers were moved hundreds of miles. Although the parishes he passed through en route had no responsibility for him, they were supposed to

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was passed that subjected vagrants to some of the more extreme provisions of the criminal law, namely two years servitude and branding with a "V" as the penalty for the first offence, and death for the second. Justices of the Peace were reluctant to apply the full penalty. In 1552, Edward VI passed

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also resulted in opposition. Some who gave evidence to the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws suggested that the existing system had proved adequate and was more adaptable to local needs. This argument was strongest in the industrial North of England and in the textile industries

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there is evidence that some workhouses were used as makeshift hospitals for wounded servicemen. Numbers using the Poor Law system increased during the interwar years and between 1921 and 1938 despite the extension of unemployment insurance to virtually all workers except the self-employed. Many of

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to assign to the impotent poor an area within which they were to beg. Generally, the licences to beg for the impotent poor were limited to the disabled, sick, and elderly. An impotent person begging out of his area was to be imprisoned for two days and nights in the stocks, on bread and water, and

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as destroying the self-reliance of the poor. The effect of this renewed effort to deter outdoor relief was to reduce claimants by a third and to increase numbers in the work house by 12–15%. County councils were formed in 1888, and district councils in 1894. This meant that public housing, unlike

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was in some cases impossible without starving paupers, and the high cost of building workhouses incurred by rate payers meant that outdoor relief continued to be a popular alternative. Despite efforts to ban outdoor relief, parishes continued to offer it as a more cost-effective method of dealing

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where he last dwelled, is best known, or was born and there remain upon the pain aforesaid." Although this returned the burden of caring for the jobless to the communities producing more children than they could employ, it offered no immediate remedy to the problem of poverty; it was merely swept

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was set up in each county. However, this system was separate from the 1601 system which distinguished between the settled poor and 'vagrants'. There was much variation in the application of the law and there was a tendency for the destitute to migrate towards the more generous parishes, usually

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was published and was aimed at creating opposition to the workhouse system. and pamphlets were published spreading rumour and propaganda about Poor Law Commissioners and alleged infanticide inside of workhouses. Opposition to the Poor Law yielded some successes in delaying the development of

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has stated that England suffered rapid inflation at this time caused by population growth, the debasement of coinage and the inflow of American silver. Poor harvests in the period between 1595 and 1598 caused the numbers in poverty to increase, while charitable giving had decreased after the

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required all parish residents with ability to contribute to poor collections. Those who "of his or their forward willful mind shall obstinately refuse to give weekly to the relief of the poor according to his or their abilities" could be bound over to justices of the peace and fined £10.

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was a device "for dealing with the problems of structural unemployment and substandard wages in the lagging rural sector of a rapidly growing but still underdeveloped economy". Other areas of Poor Law which have concerned historians include the extent to which the Second

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supply food and drink and shelter for at least one night. An act of 1697 required beggars to wear a badge of red or blue cloth on the right shoulder with an embroidered letter "P" and the initial of their parish. However, this practice soon fell into disuse.

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or outdoor relief. Neither method was then deemed harsh. The act was intended to deal with beggars who were considered a threat to civil order. The act was passed at a time when poverty was considered necessary as fear of poverty made people work. In 1607 a

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required towns to create "a competent stock of wool, hemp, flax, iron and other stuff" for the poor to work on and houses of correction for those who refused to work where recalcitrant or careless workers could be forced to work and punished accordingly.

366:& want, as they could be content to hazard their lives, and to sere one yeere for meat, drinke and apparell only, without wages, in hope thereby to amend their estates." With this, he may have been the first to suggest what became the institution of 525:. Unfortunately, the laws reduced the mobility of labour and discouraged the pauper from leaving his parish to find work. They also encouraged industry to create short contracts (e.g. 364 days) that did not make an employee eligible for poor relief. 1469:

has passed through several distinct phases. The "traditionalist" or "orthodox" account of the Poor Laws focuses upon the deficiencies of the Old Poor Law. This early historiography was influential in successfully overhauling the system.

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was passed in order to make the financial burden of pauperism be placed upon the whole unions rather than individual parishes. Most boards of guardians were middle class and committed to keeping poor rates as low as possible. After the

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and the building of workhouses in each union for the giving of poor relief. Although the legislation sought to reduce costs to rate payers, one area not reformed was the system's continued financing via "poor rates" on property owners.

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Additionally, the 1572 Act further enabled Justices of the Peace to survey and register the impotent poor, determine how much money was required for their relief, and then assess parish residents weekly for the appropriate amount. The

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to "Bees...led out by their Captaines to swarme abroad"; he recommends "deducting" the poor out of the realm. Hakluyt also broadens the scope and additionally recommends to empty the prisons and send them off to the New World.

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was set up to investigate what changes could be made to the Poor Law. The commission produced two conflicting reports but both investigations were largely ignored by the Liberal government when implementing their own scheme of

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had been the primary source of poor relief, but their dissolution resulted in poor relief moving from a largely voluntary basis to a compulsory tax that was collected at a parish level. Early legislation was concerned with

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which designated a position of "Collector of Alms" in each parish and created a register of licensed poor. Under the assumption that parish collections would now relieve all poor, begging was completely prohibited.

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When the act was introduced however it had been partly watered down. The workhouse test and the idea of "less eligibility" were never mentioned themselves and the recommendation of the royal commission that

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and a decline in industries such as wool spinning and lace making. Boyer also contends that farmers were able to take advantage of the poor law system to shift some of their labour costs onto the tax payer.

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was called to deal with the issues of increased poverty and vagrancy, among other things. This session culminated in the passage of several Acts referred to as the "Poor Laws of 1598". Among them were the

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In London, there was a great massing of the poor, and the Reformation threatened to eliminate some of the infrastructure used to provide for the poor. As a result, King Henry VIII consented to re-endow

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was the first attempt to put control of the destitute and responsibility for their welfare on a statutory basis. Due to exceptional overcrowding, workhouses in Ireland stopped admissions during the

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workhouses were already being built to reduce the spiraling cost of poor relief. Boyer suggests several possible reasons for the gradual increase in relief given to able-bodied males, including the

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reforming legislation of the period". The act aimed to reduce the burden on rate payers and can be seen as an attempt by the Whig government to win the votes of the classes enfranchised by the

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and mentally ill and children became more humane. This was in part due to the expense of providing "mixed workhouses" as well as changing attitudes regarding the causes and nature of poverty.

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cheap grain into Britain which resulted in the price of bread increasing. As wages did not also increase, many agricultural labourers were plunged into poverty. Following peace in 1814, the

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Lewis C. Vollmar, Jr., "The Effect of Epidemics on the Development of English Law from the Black Death Through the Industrial Revolution," Journal of Legal Medicine, vol. 15 (1994), p. 385

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was relatively unusual, and most workhouses developed later. The 1601 Law made parents and children responsible for each other, so elderly parents would live with their children.

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system of indentured service would be fully developed, and subsequent colonies would adopt the method with modifications suitable to their different conditions and times. English

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which prevented non-settled persons from being moved on unless they had applied for relief. An investigation of the history and current state of the Poor Laws was made by

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that established poor houses solely for the aged and infirm and introduced a system of outdoor relief for the able-bodied. This was the basis for the development of the

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for three days and three nights and have none other sustenance but bread and water and then shall be put out of Town. Every beggar suitable to work shall resort to the

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in 1714 several dozen small towns and individual parishes established their own institutions without any specific legal authorization. These were concentrated in the

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was a parish-based system; there were around 15,000 such parishes based upon the area around a parish church. The system allowed for despotic behaviour from the

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for the poor. In 1555, London became increasingly concerned with the number of poor who could work, but yet could not find work, so it established the first

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laws dealing with the problems caused by vagrants and beggars. The history of the Poor Law in England and Wales is usually divided between two statutes: the

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were developed during the inter-war period, not as part of the Poor Law, but as part of the attempt to offer relief that was not affected by the stigma of

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encouraged the Local Government Board to set up work projects when unemployment rates were high rather than use workhouses. The Conservatives passed the

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The origins of the English Poor Law system can be traced back to late medieval statutes dealing with beggars and vagrancy, but it was only during the

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No Part of the Mother Country, but Distinct Dominions – Law, State Formation and Governance in England, Massachusetts und South Carolina, 1630–1769

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in 1834. The few who opposed the bill were more concerned about the centralisation which it would bring rather than the underpinning philosophy of

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is considered to be one of the most "far-reaching pieces of legislation of the entire Nineteenth Century" and "classic example of the fundamental

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The more immediate origins of the Elizabethan Poor Law system were deteriorating economic circumstances in sixteenth-century England. Historian

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Lees, Lynn Hollen. The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1770–1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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created a system administered at parish level, paid for by levying local rates on rate payers. Relief for those too ill or old to work, the '

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from sight, or moved from town to town. Moreover, no distinction was made between vagrants and the jobless; both were simply categorised as "

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meant that people who had accessed medical care funded by the poor rate were no longer disqualified from voting in elections. In 1886 the

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there was increasing welfare legislation. As this legislation required local authorities' support the Poor Law Board was replaced with a

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was sometimes used by landlords as a method of keeping the cost of poor relief down and removing surplus labour. Reforms after the

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artificially high. 1815 saw great social unrest as the end of the French Wars saw industrial and agricultural depression and high

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The 1601 act sought to deal with 'settled' poor who had found themselves temporarily out of work—it was assumed they would accept

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and the criticism of Henry Parker who was responsible for the Andover union as well as the tensions in Somerset House caused by

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that developed out of the codification of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws in 1587–1598. The system continued until the modern

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Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

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had been absorbed into this scheme. By 1936 only 13% of people were still receiving poor relief in some form of institution.

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Household and Family among the Poor: The Case of Two Essex Communities in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

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The Poor Law system fell into decline at the beginning of the 20th century owing to factors such as the introduction of the

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of the Liberal government made several provisions to provide social services without the stigma of the Poor Law, including

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began to promote the idea of parochial workhouses. The society published several pamphlets on the subject, and supported

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took a year to write its report, the recommendations passed easily through Parliament support by both main parties the

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should have to enter a workhouse with conditions worse than that of the poorest free labourer outside of the workhouse.

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and others in 1921. Lansbury had in 1911 written a provocative attack on the workhouse system in a pamphlet entitled

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and largely implemented the findings of the royal commission which had presented its findings two years earlier. The

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which combined housing and care of the poor with a house of correction for petty offenders. Following the example of

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which were implemented outside of the Poor Law system and paved the way for the eventual abolition of the Poor Law.

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Boyer, George R. (1997). "Poor Relief, Informal Assistance, and Short Time during the Lancashire Cotton Famine".

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Union workhouse were found to be inhumane and dangerous, prompted a government review and the replacement of the

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Smith, Richard (1996). “Charity, Self-interest and Welfare: Reflections from Demographic and Family History” in

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which formed in 1858 highlighted conditions in workhouses and led to workhouses being inspected more often. The

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Huzel, James, ”Malthus, the Poor Law, and Population in Early Nineteenth-Century England”, University of Kent,

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English Poor Law legislation can be traced back as far as 1536, when legislation was passed to deal with the

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to oversee the national operation of the system. This included the forming together of small parishes into

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were undermining the position of the independent labourer. Two practices were of particular concern: the "

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was felt to be too costly and was considered in academic circles as encouraging the underlying problems.

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Shaw-Taylor, Leigh. "Parliamentary Enclosure and the Emergence of an English Agricultural Proletariat."

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The Poor Law system began to decline with the availability of other forms of assistance. The growth of

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health and income maintenance, developed outside the scope of the Poor Law. Poor Law policy after the

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or even subjected to beatings to mend their attitudes. Provision for the many able-bodied poor in the

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Sidney & Beatrice Webb, English Local Government: English Poor Law History Part 1, pp. 1–2, 24–25

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noted the then-current domestic conditions; "there are at this day great numbers which live in such

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as well as being a more cost-effective method. Poor Law commissioners faced greatest opposition in

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and in 1816 a parliamentary select committee looked into altering the system which resulted in the

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is sometimes referred to as the "43rd Elizabeth" as it was passed in the 43rd year of the reign of

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The Labour Market and the Continuity of Social Policy after 1834: The Case of the Eastern Counties

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would be implemented soon afterwards, and evolve into a subsidized government endeavor with the

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where poor could receive shelter and work at cap-making, feather-bed making, and wire drawing.

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which bypassed the Poor Law system. The Poor Law system was not formally abolished until the

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Annotated text of an Act of 1598 of which the 1601 Act was a revision (scroll down to (H))

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The workhouse movement began at the end of the 17th century with the establishment of the

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criticized the New Poor Law's workhouses for splitting mothers and their infant children.

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argued for a disciplinary, punitive approach to social problems, whilst the writings of

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was responsible for several measures which largely killed off the Poor Law system. The

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In 1948 the Poor Law system was finally abolished with the introduction of the modern

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were both issued to try to prevent people receiving relief outside of the workhouse.

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Redemptioners and indentured servants in the colony and commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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also was allowed an exemption from the law and continued to provide outdoor relief.

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laws directly aimed at providing relief for the poor. For example, in 1563, her

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