L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Dewey, Industrial Revolution, Health Equity
15 Sep 2016
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Natural resources like coal helped industrialization, and vast waterways allowed for the travel of natural resources like timber and coal. Landlords enclosed land holdings with fences, and parliament passed legislature that encourages landlords to enclose their landholdings. Kicks poor settlers and squatters without money off the land, and into the cities. Need people for factories, and less workers for rural areas. In 1601, queen elizabeth passed the law to encourage churches and other associations to give support to people without homes or jobs. New poor law changed this, so anyone who is able-bodied must work. Reverses elizabeth"s renaissance ideas to help people, whether or not they are working. Led to shifts of poor people from rural areas to cities. Urban poverty is becoming a problem of new proportion/visibility. Also a problem of relationship/proximity: poor people and high class people are living very close.
