HIST 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Second Industrial Revolution, Price Gouging, Class Consciousness
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Wednesday, january 17th 2018: the 18th century: enter the workhouse, a(cid:374) (cid:858)i(cid:373)possi(cid:271)le(cid:859) i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) (cid:894)like priso(cid:374)s toda(cid:455)(cid:895). Ca(cid:374)(cid:859)t li(cid:448)e (cid:449)ith it, (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t li(cid:448)e without it: why did they spread so far, most common explanation is rise of workout: associated with rise of commerce, and political ideals associated with commerce. If work increasingly valued by growing commercial classes as eu became richer, then the opposite of work (idleness) was increasingly demonized and during 17th century that workhouse emerge in netherlands, and. Often men had to do the most menial tasks, punial aspect to it: harton workhouse, hastings, uk, early 1900s. Fraser: 1802: 1 million paupers in england. Picks up speed in 18th century: displaces many of poor rural laboring poor, this is root of rising poverty in. Prices, wages in certain sectors no longer regulated. Prices rise and fall, no justice of people trying to regulate them to prevent people from price gouging during grain shortages.
