The agrarian system of Moslem India

The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 895603128

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-10120

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Merck, Klemens http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064962637

Title:: Merck's Warenlexikon für Handel, Industrie und Gewerbe

Edition:: Sechste, völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: G.A. Gloeckner, Verlag für Handelswissenschaft

Year of publication:: 1919

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (IV, 555 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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A 7 3 »f THE PROBLEMS OF POVERTY 577 was to treat their poverty as a crime. The local adminis- AD Los tration was carried on in the same spirit, for every overseer seemed to regard it as his primary duty to keep down the rates at all hazards’. The policy proved successful in its but at the main object, though at what expense of suffering we shall pg never know. Under the influence of the workhouse test and *# 4. the harshness of overseers the sums expended in poor relief diminished from £819,000 in 16982 to about £689,000 in 1750. The last half of the eighteenth century saw the begin- ning of a reaction against this stringent administration of poor relief; the change was not merely due to the ebb and flow of sentiment, but was to some extent Justified by intelligent consideration of the causes of pauperism. If it Since some had been true to say that all poverty was due to the fault of a the distressed and his idleness, there would have been some Hoy no excuse for insisting that the poor should be treated harshly. Lib But as Joseph Massie showed most clearly, distress did not ’ always arise from the fault of the sufferers, but sometimes from their misfortune. He pointed out that the tendency of the new development of manufactures?®, as well as the effect; of enclosure on the tenantry, was to divorce the poor man from the soil, and to expose him to risks from all the un- certainties of business. “Many People are reduced to that pitiable Way of Life, by Want of Employment, Sickness or some other Accident; and the Reluctance, or ill Success, with which such unfortunate People do practise begging, is frequently manifested by a poor and emaciated Man or Woman being found drowned or starved to Death, so that though Choice, Idleness, or Drunkenness may be reasons why a number of people are Beggars, yet this Drowning, and perishing for Want, are sad Proofs that the general cause is Necessity. And if any person thinks those Proofs are insufficient, the great Numbers of Thieves, and Pick- pockets which daily infest this metropolis, will put the Matter beyond all Doubt; for their not being Beggars 1 See below, p. 768. 1 Bee above, p. 562 n. 4, and 571, also 608 and 638 below. # Samuel Richardson in his additions to Defoe’s Tour notes the heavy poor rates at Bocking in Essex in consequence of the decay of manufactures (1742), I. 118. See above, 562 n. 4.

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