The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1013879643

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-23338

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Author:: Bucharin, Nikolaj Ivanovič http://d-nb.info/gnd/118516574

Title:: Oekonomik der Transformationsperiode

Place of publication:: Hamburg

Publisher:: Verlag der Kommunistischen Internationale

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)

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Title:: 10. Kapitel. Der ,,außerökonomische" Zwang in der Uebergangsperiode

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THE PROBLEMS OF POVERTY 567 Q the frugality of Dutch craftsmen and French peasants was A.D. 1689 , -—1776. held up as an example to Englishmen. Hard-headed men at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the oighteenth century protested against the observed effects of indiscriminate State charity. We have, moreover, abundant ze ut . . yay ® . , absorb the evidence that despite the facilities for employment which vagrant os population. were open, there was a very large half-pauper and half-criminal class, who were never absorbed in industrial pursuits of any kind. One writer after another inveighs! against them, and makes suggestion as to the best means of dealing with this social danger. The obvious expedient, to which the authorities had who were ak . permitted recourse, was that of permitting and even encouraging these in the : : seventeenth vagrants to settle on unoccupied ground. An Elizabethan gp. Act had provided for the building of cottages on the waste, and many landlords appear to have been willing that additional accommodation should be erected, though they were not always ready to assign allotments of land to be held along with these houses? Silvanus Taylor complains must be a skein the less spun by some poor person or family that spun it before; suppose the manufacture of making bays to be erected in Bishopsgate Street, anless the makers of these bays can find out at the same time a trade or con- sumption for more bays than were made before, for every piece of bays so made in London, there must be a piece the less made at Colchester.” “If these worthy gentlemen, who show themselves so forward to relieve and smploy the poor, will find out some new trade, some new market, where the goods they make shall be sold, where none of the same sort were sold before, if they will send them to any place where they shall not interfere with the rest of that manufacture, or with some other made in England; then indeed they will do something worthy of themselves, and they may employ the poor to the same glorious advantage as Queen Elizabeth did.” Defoe, Giving Alms no Charity, in Works, 11. 434. 1 «THe two great Nurseries of Idlenesse and Beggery etc., are Alehouses and Commons,” Taylor, Common Good (1652), 51. In 1683 Sir M. Hale wrote, ‘Whereas in that State that things are, our Populousness, which is the greatest blessing a Kingdom can have, becomes the burden of the Kingdom, by breeding up whole Races and Families, and successive Generations, in a mere Trade of Idle- uess, Thieving, Begging and a barbarous kind of life which must in time pro- digiously increase and overgrow the whole face of the kingdom and eat out the neart of it.” Discourse touching provision for the Poor (1683), p. 11. See also Observations on a pamphlet entitled An Enquiry, Brit. Mus. T. 1950 (2) (1781), p. 5. Even when the cottagers did not deserve the bad character which they often bore they were apt to be at cross purposes with the farmers. Political Enguiry into the consequences of enclosing waste lanas (1785), p. 48. Brit. Mus. I. 1950 (3). ] 3 This was ordered to be a matter of official enquiry by the Commissioners in 1631. A case came before the Bedfordshire magistrates at the January Sessions

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