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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LAISSEZ FAIRE Classes Lodging-House Act' empowered local authorities so purchase houses, which should be used under their control for the letting of lodgings; and the series of Torrens and Cross Acts? not only deal with the demolition of insanitary property, but authorise the building and maintenance of improved dwellings by municipalities. ras been This difficult problem has not been entirely left to public partly dealt . cith by authority however, as much useful work has been done, through wild" the frugality and enterprise of the higher grades of artisans, in providing themselves with comfortable houses. This has been effected in many cases by the agency of building societies, which enable their members to save money and then to lend to one another on excellent security and easy berms, so that they can build their own houses and even- bually live rent free. This form of self-help was put on a legal basis by an Act in 1836° and has been very widely taken advantage of, though it appears that its popularity among artisans has been declining in recent years. though ths There is no question in regard to which it is more diffi- ins cult to lay down the limits of interference by public authority Ww dificult. with private transactions than that of the housing of the poor. The standard of sanitary requirements is changing rapidly, as medical science throws fresh light on the causes of disease, and the evils of overcrowding become more patent. It has often been found hard to bring home the responsibility for the insanitary state of property to the proper person; and it may be physically impossible to provide sufficient accom- modation, within a limited area, at prices which the poor can afford to pay. Recent improvements in rapid transit are doing something to simplify the problem, but public authority seems to be placed in the dilemma of attempting, either to force individual builders and landlords to carry on their business under unremunerative conditions, or to provide shelter by its own action for the poorest classes in the com- munity at the expense of the rest. 310 LD. 1776 —1850. 1 14 and 15 Viet. c. 34. ! These were consolidated in the Housing of the Working Classes Act in 1890, 5 6 and 7 William IV. c. 82, An dct for the Regulation of Benefit Building Socteties.

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