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 7167 enquiries had been instituted by a Select Committee in 1817 ; AD Jr but no useful result accrued from their labours, Matters dragged on till the Reformed Parliament set to work to investigate the subject with characteristic energy, and a Royal Commission was appointed in 1832. The Report of the Commission! testifies to the most curious variety in regard to the machinery for the adminis- under sration of relief in different districts? and to the disastrous forms 7 results of the policy which had been generally pursueds, 24min There were some exceptions which proved the rule. At Southwell in Nottinghamshire, Sir George Nicholls had given great attention to the management of the work- house ; under his advice out-door relief was refused to the able-bodied, and given but rarely to others. The rates were reduced by this means between 1820 and 1823 from £2,006 to £517, and they remained at the latter figures, Similar experience was adduced from Bingham and Cookham and Hatfield’, where the able-bodied men were only al- lowed the opportunity of work at less than the current rates of wages; but on the other hand there were parishes where the pauper appeared to be supreme. At Cholesbury in Buckinghamshire, the poor-rate had risen from £10. 11s. in 1801 to £367 in 1832. Here the whole land was offered to the assembled poor, but they thought it wiser to decline and have it worked for their advantage on the old system. This was an extreme instance of an evil that existed in different degrees throughout the country generally. The Report of the Commissioners helps us to understand how this disastrous state of affairs had been brought about; their suggestions as to remedial legislation were based on a careful diagnosis of the nature of the disease. The whole machinery which had been created by the Elizabethan statute had got out of working order; the control which had been exercised by the Council in the period 4 Report from Commissioners for inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws. (Reports, etc., 1834, xxvir.) 3 Many parishes retained the Elizabethan system, some were incorporated ander Gilbert's Act, and some had private Acts. See p. 578 above. ! See above, 719 n. 3. + Nicholls, Hist. of Poor Law, 11. 229, 230; Becher, The Anti-pauper System 1828), 18 & Reports, 1834, xxvx. 6 Ashcrott. op. eit. 82.

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