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 778 to make rules for outdoor relief. These rules, which forbade A.D. 1776 . . . —1850. relief to the able-bodied, were only applied at first in the aed worst districts, but were gradually extended to the whole Sled country’, During the commercial depression of 1836, a great relief for strain was put upon the new system, and the Commissioners bodied; came in for a full share of that unpopularity which the officials, under the older system, had so studiously endeavoured to avoid. Indeed there seemed to be some doubt as to whether Parlia- ment would renew their powers, at the end of the five years for which they had been appointed. But the account of the work they had actually done, which they laid before Parlia- ment, spoke strongly in their favour. Their powers were continued, from year to year, until 1842, and then for five years; before this term of office expired, they drew up the General Order of 1847; this lays down rules for continuing to work the new system? which the Commissioners had introduced. The public were beginning to realise, moreover, that the functions which had been discharged by the Com- missioners could not be discontinued; and the Poor Law it has Board was organised as a permanent Government department en in 1847: The whole of England was divided into eleven BR ind districts, over which Inspectors were appointed. It became depart. : ., mend. their duty to see that the orders of the central authority were carried out, while supervision over local bodies could be exercised by the systematic audit of their accounts. The new department was also brought into closer relations with the House of Commons. The Commissioners had been occasionally placed in a disagreeable position from the fact that there was no official to defend their conduct when it was criticised in Parliament; but under the new Act the President of the Board was eligible to sit in Parliament and 1 This was done by the Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order of 1844. 2 Aschrott, op. cit. 47. Sir I. F. Lewis, Sir J. G. Shaw-Lefevre, and Sir George Nicholls were the three Commissioners who accomplished this great work. Chadwick was their secretary. Their action, of course, was deeply resented by the paupers and those who were interested in the abuses of the old system; bat it also found many critics among doctrinaire politicians, who were afraid of the influence of centralised departments, and anxious that those who raised the eoney for the rates should have a full responsibility for the manner in which it was employed. McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy, 424. 3 The Poor Law Board was merged in the Local Government Board in 1871.

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