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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THE PROBLEMS OF POVERTY children are seldom brought up to anything; but being dd nursed up in idleness in their youth, they become indisposed for labour, and then begging is their portion, or Theevery their Trade, so that though Commons be a help to one, yet its a ruine to many.” Worlidge also argues that the common rights of the “Poor do very much injure them and the Commonweal in general. For here, by reason and under colour of a small advantage on a Common, and by spending a great part of their time in seeking and attendance after their cattel; they neglect those parts of Husbandry and Labour, that otherwise would maintain them well, and educate their Children in these poor Cottages, as attenders on their small Stocks, and their Neighbours’ greater, for a small allowance; which is the occasion that so many poor Cottagers are near so great Wasts and Commons. These open and Champion Counties, by reason of the multitude of these Cottagers, are the Producers, Shelterers and Maintainers of the vast number of Vagrants and Idle Persons, that are spread throughout the greatest part of England; and are encouragements to Theft, Pillage, Lechery, Idleness and many other Lewd Actions, not so usual in places where every man hath his proper Lands Inclosed, where every Tenant knows where to find his Cattel, and every Labourer knows where to have his day’s Work?” In so far as the Civil War caused the dislocation of agriculture?, or of trade, the means of charitable relief* 569 1 Taylor, Common Good, 8. 8 Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, 13, % Sir John Cooke writes in 1648 (Unum necessarium, p. 5): “ There was never more need to make some provision for the poore then this yeare;...a Labourer will thrash as much corn in a day, as the last yeare in two; and corn being deere, ‘hose that kept three servants the last yeare, will keep but two the next; those that had two but one, and those that had one will do their work themselves; and very one projects for himselfe, to spend as little as may be, but who takes care for the poore, how shall they be provided for? If a poor man have work all this winter, and get six pence a day; what will three shillings a week do to maintain himselfe, his wife, and three or foure children? For English families commonly ronsist of six or seven.” The remedy he suggests is that of preventing or limiting brewing so that barley may be available for food (p. 29). He discusses the practice in other countries of authoritatively fixing the price of corn (p. 7), but is curiously silent about the powers of the Justices to raise wages. 4 “In respect of the troubles of the times, the meanes of the said Hospitall hath very much failed for want of charitable benevolences which formerly have

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