The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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ANTI-PAUPERISM 771 children and persons capable of labour, but using no daily AD jm trade, and in the necessary relief of the impotent, is applied —— to purposes opposed to the letter, and still more to the spirit eective control; of that Law, and destructive to the morals of the most and numerous class, and to the welfare of all.” Considerable changes were needed to give effect, under altered circumstances, to the aims which the Elizabethan legislators had had in view. The Commissioners of 1832 thous gid advocated the introduction of one type of administrative a antral v - QU ly machinery throughout the country generally? and advised the appointment of a Poor-law Commission, which might be a permanent authority in all matters of administration, and which might use its influence to bring up the practice of the local functionaries in every part of the country to a satisfactory level’, There was need for the reintroduction of a central authority to exercise a general supervision, as the Council had done in Elizabethan times. They also proposed to adopt the safe course of being guided by actual experience in regard to the granting of assistance, and laid down the principle “that those modes of pi oo. . . . * . uce a administering relief, which have been tried wholly or partially, sester . . a lic. and have produced beneficial results in some districts be 22% introduced with modifications according to local circum- stances, and carried into complete execution in all%” The first recommendation which they made was that « of abolishing all relief to able-bodied persons or their families except in well regulated workhouses.” The re-institution of a workhouse best’, which had been abandoned in 1782 and 1795, was the corner-stone of the new policy®; but in order that this position might be secured, it was necessary that proper management 1 Reports, 1834, xxva. p. 8. 2 On the whole they recommended the system which was in vogue in the Gilbert incorporations as a model for general adoption. 8 Reports, 1834, XxvIL 167. ¢ Jp. 1884, xxviL. p. 146. & See above, 719n. 8. 8 It is extraordinary to see how many years passed, after the House of Commons was convinced of the necessity of recasting the system, before the change was actually carried out. The Report of the Commons Committee in 1759 advocates a scheme which is similar in many features to that actually adopted (C. J. xxv. 599) ; it appears to have been the basis of Mr Gilbert's first bill which passed the House of Commons in 1765 (C. J. xxx. 164) and was read a second time in the House of Lords (ZL. J. xxx1. 107) but never became law (Parl. Hist. xvi. 544 and XXII. S01).

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