SOC 104 Chapter 22: Building Their Readiness for Economic Freedom
20 Apr 2017
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Alms & almshouses for aged and in rm ! apprenticeship for children ! work for the able-bodied, punished for the work-shy! In england + wales, workhouse, outdoor relief and settlement regulations developed. Outdoor relief was administered outside of the workhouse & embraced all those employed and unemployed whose income fell below a minimum subsistence level ! Those unable or unwilling to work were sent to workhouse ! The reform act of 1834 abolished outdoor relief to the abled-bodied & those who are consisted as dependents for the whole of the next century! Unemployed abled-bodies and their dependents were forced to enter the workhouse! Logic was that if brutal conditions were maintained in the workhouse, only the truly destitute would enter! Karl polanyi dubbed the poor law reform the great transformation (social policy intervention that gave rise to a national capitalist labor market !
