...The poor relief of 1601 was an act of the Parliament of England. It created a National poor law system for England and Wales, which is commonly known as the Law that made the individual parishes responsible for poor law legislation. It drew together a collection of laws from between 16th and 18th centuries which included an improvement of the ‘Act for the relief of the Poor 1597’ that founded ‘overseers of the poor’ (May, 1995). The 1601 act was responsible for introducing a less barbaric approach, which was prevalent under the Tudor system and its main focus was to help as oppose to punish beggars and vagabonds (Slack,1990). The two forms of relief for the poor was either indoor relief meaning inside a workhouse or outdoor relief (outside a workhouse), this was the most common form of relief as the cost of building different workhouse were extremely expensive. A huge majority of relief came in the form of food and distribution of money during this period (Slack,1990). The ‘Deserving’ and ‘undeserving poor’ were ways of defining whether a person was accepted of the poor relief. The idle poor were identified as those avoiding work, the law wanted to warrant that these people were punished, although branding and whipping was abolished once the 1601 poor law was introduced as it was seen as barbaric and a more humane approach was maintained (Quigley,1996). They were still forced into work, much often forced to work long hours in the workhouses. The impotent poor were genuinely...
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...Helping the Poor Helping the Poor Friendly visiting, dole charities and dole queues Robert Whelan based on research by Barendina Smedley Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society London First published October 2001 © The Institute for the Study of Civil Society 2001 The Mezzanine, Elizabeth House 39 York Road, London SE1 7NQ email: books@civitas.org.uk All rights reserved ISBN 1-903 386-16-0 Typeset by Civitas in New Century Schoolbook Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Contents Acknowledgements Authors vi viii Introduction: Hand-outs and Leg-ups Section 1: The Visiting Charity The Charity Organisation Society 1. The Organisation of Charity 2. Preaching the ‘Gospel of Social Reform’ in West London 3. The Fulham and Hammersmith Committee and Its Cases Section 2: The Dole Charity The Mansion House Fund 4. From West End to East End 5. Lord Mayor Aid 6. The Aftermath 7. Moralities and Mathematics Appendices Appendix 1 Applications for Relief Received by the Fulham and Hammersmith District Committee of the COS, November 1879 - October 1880 Appendix 2 The 27 Extant Fulham and Hammersmith Casebooks Appendix 3 The Charity Organisation Society by Miss Octavia Hill Notes Index 1 9 24 39 51 59 85 90 99 137 164 166 182 v Acknowledgements This book has been made possible by a generous grant from the Wincott Foundation. The author would like to express his thanks to the trustees. The research...
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...Government assistance was only supposed to be temporary. Sometimes I feel like the poor have a sense of entitlement because they feel like the government or rich people put them in poverty. I feel like it isn’t the government's fault for their downfall. I believe that everybody plays a part in everything that happens. “The Working Poor” has so much irony in the title alone. How is it that a person can be working, yet still be poor? David Shipler wanted people to not forget about the minority groups that people seem to have forgotten about. I feel that Shipler was very focused on certain people situations especially the lower class. I believe that a lot of “rich” people were fed up with this book being published because it’s making people know...
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...In 1834, after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act, workhouses were set up to prevent workers from claiming poor relief, and instead earning to keep. Victorian workhouses were undoubtedly a phenomenon that defined a huge aspect of Victorian society, notably the grim reality for the working class in England. Oppression and discrimination towards the working class was an established issue at the time, reflecting in some of the most classic pieces in Victorian Literature, specifically, in the writings of Charles Dickens, who rebuked many social and economic aspects of Victorian Society. Dickens addresses his fascination with the sympathy for the poor, especially the children. In this essay, I will be discussing how social class,...
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...The poor laws were a set of laws announced by Queen Elizabeth. Taxes were raised on the wealthy which created money that was given to the poor. This money went towards almshouses and helping the poor and handicapped. Since the poor were receiving money, they felt that they could continue having children even though they did not have the money to provide for their kids. Almshouses, also called poor houses were institutions provided for the less fortunate. People who could not provide for themselves were sent to these houses. Almshouses lasted for three hundred years educating young children and caring for the elderly. Large farms of several acres were typically connected to these buildings. Small rooms were inside often crammed with several...
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...discussions of the poor laws were written in England during his stay there for 18 years. During this period there was heated discussion and condemnation of the poor laws in England. Franklin was a scholar with keen interest in economics, and political discourse and was easily drawn in the discussion. In 1766 he was upfront in questioning the poor laws, and advocating outright repeal. He made it clear that he was for helping the poor. His point of contention was the means to support them. Franklin was making the case, that the poor can workout of poverty. He believed what was needed was providing them jobs, leadership and motivation for them to work. He earlier mentioned that perhaps the order of God and nature of wants and miseries is about leading or driving...
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...The Poor Law relief system was first introduced in 1597 to provide relief for paupers in England and Wales. The Elizabethan Poor Law concerned the impotent poor, the able-bodied poor and children, who were most often sent away on an apprenticeship from the age of seven in order to provide them with good working habits which would hopefully stop them and the generation below them needing to depend on such relief. There were many extensions to the ‘Old Poor Law’ such as the Act of Settlement, Knatchbull Act and the Gilbert’s Act but by 1832 the Royal Commission felt that the Poor Law needed to be drastically reformed due to costs of relief. This is when the 1834 Amendment Act was introduced as a means of cutting expenditure and poverty in Britain...
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...Kenny Joseph Sr.Rita English-81 12/18/13 Research paper The poor people in the United States have a claim on the more fortunate people in the country. There are many people who are less fortunate and it affects many people in the country. In the United States poverty is greatly increasing especially in the east coast like Brooklyn, New York. It is one of the poorest places in New York State. They have an estimate of 414 individuals living In public spaces or who are homeless according to the homeless outreach population estimated.(Nyc1) The majority of streets less were male ranging in from 21 to 55 and older. Brooklyn outreach rooms have an average of 1157 contacts which are people who go to these homeless shelters and talk to the homeless because the homeless people usually don't have anybody(Nyc1). They can be the loneliest people in the world and the people who go to have a conversation with street homeless people every month could be the thing that brightens their day. The people that they talk to are on average 54 years old and are place into a shelter or a drop in center. These shelters provide food, warmth, and medical care for those who need it. During the winter it is the best thing for the homeless in Brooklyn to do to try and get into one of these homeless shelters in Brooklyn. It could be the thing that saved them from doing something stupid like breaking into somebody's home just for warmth and they end up getting...
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...The author meets numerous people, including Holly a maid in Maine that she befriends. Ehrenreich’s view of low wage workers helps her understand their situation around the country as she comes to the realization that one cannot afford nutritious food, a protected living enviroment and provide for health insurance all on low earnings. My paper will discuss the repercussions of low wages on the working poor as well as how they are viewed by society. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America The book Nickel and Dimed begins with the author, Barbara Ehrenreich (2011), contemplating how she will take on the task of living with limited money and assets as she has a Ph.D. in Biology, but her focus became social change. Ehrenreich must ground rules for her research and decides that she must have transportation, a place to live and food to eat as these are things that she will need to get by. "Transportation is also a major barrier to financial self-sufficiency for many working poor families. Many of the working poor do not get to work with the ease that most working non-poor enjoy" (Lambert, 1998). The second leg of Ehnrenreich’s journey begins in...
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...PAPER TEORI SOSIOLOGI KLASIK PERLOMBAAN DI KAMPUS DAN KEHIDUPAN PERKULIAHAN ( Studi Kasus : Ketika Perlombaan UKM dan Solative Sosiologi Tidak Disesuaikan Dengan Jadwal Kuliah Mahasiswa, Serta Pembedaan antara Masa SMA dan Kuliah) Oleh: Ahmad Rofiki PENDAHULUAN Masa kuliah adalah masa dewasa dini yang telah memikirkan masa depan. Ini ditandai dengan adanya semangat bersaing dan hasrat kuat untuk maju dalam karir1. Tidak seperti pada saat SMA yang masih kental dengan aroma persahabatan kuat. Dalam masa dewasa dini ini kita hanya menyisihkan waktu yang sedikit untuk bergaul bersama teman-teman kampus. Begitu pula ketika kampus mengadakan kegiatan perlombaan UKM dan Solative Sosiologi, kebanyakan dari teman-teman mahasiswa tidak mengikutinya. Di karenakan jadwal perkuliahan mereka tidak di sesuaikan dengan jadwal perlombaan. Tidak seperti di SMA, yang melakukan classmeeting atau perlombaan diadakan saat setelah UAS. Perlombaan di kampus diadakan sebelum UAS, kendati pun perlombaan itu diadakan setelah UAS. Saya yakin tidak ada yang mau untuk menonton. Kenapa demikian, karena kebanyakan mahasiswa sudah sibuk untuk mengurusi liburan pulang kampung mereka. Bagaimana menanamkan kepada para mahasiswa di jurusan sosiologi maupun yang lain, supaya lebih mementingkan mengikuti perlombaan daripada mengikuti jadwal perkuliahan. Saya rasa mustahil, karena mereka lebih mementingkan mendapatkan nilai bagus, memikirkan masa depan dan membuat kedua orang tua bangga dengan cara lulus tepat...
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...Facing Poverty With A Rich Girl’s Habits By: Kim Darrell Carter Lindsay Ludvigsen English Composition 115 April 20, 2014 The essay tells about a family that was once rich and they went bankrupt overnight. Her father lost everything he had and everything that they owned. The author Kim is the voice throughout the story. She was mainly talking about herself so it is told as an autobiography. One of the most important points in the girls life is when she was in middle her father lost everything that mattered to them. She then moved to Queens, New York where she had difficulty adapting to the American culture since she was from Korea. She didn’t even know how to speak English. She watched “Three’s Company” in attempt to learn English. She also stated that attempting to learn English was more brutal than facing poverty with a rich girl’s habits and memories. At the age of 13 she had to take public transportation instead of being driven so that was something that she was not used to. She had to learn how to do her own laundry and also needed a tutor throughout school. I’ve learned that she is now learning to be independent and experiencing being a middle class teenager since she is no longer rich. The story’s genre and purpose is to show readers of this story the difference between the Korean culture and our American culture. The author also shows how hard it is for someone to adapt to such modest living conditions after living such a wealthy lifestyle especially for...
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...Dominican immigrants are part of the changing demographics in Harlem. In Canarsie, the possible migration of blacks into a working/middle-class neighborhood prompts conservative backlash from a traditionally liberal community. In Streetwise, the migration of yuppies as a result of gentrification, and the movement of nearby-ghetto blacks into these urban renewal sites also invoke fear of crime and neighborhood devaluation among the gentrifying community. Not only is migration a common thread, but the persistence of poverty, despite the current economic boom, is the cornerstone of all these works. Poverty, complicated by the dynamics of race in America, call for universalistic policy strategies, some of which are articulated in Poor Support and The War Against the Poor. In When Work Disappears, William Julius Wilson builds upon many of the insights he introduced in The Truly Disadvantaged, such as the rampant joblessness, social isolation, and lack of marriageable males that characterized many urban ghetto neighborhoods. In the class discussion, Professor Wilson argues that it is necessary to disassociate unemployment with joblessness, as the former only measures those still seeking jobs while the latter encompasses those who may have dropped out of the labor market. Also, by focusing on neighborhood-level poverty, he highlights...
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...when I found a reference to King Athelstan. He established what is the first recorded almshouse – in York in the 10th Century. I also found that the oldest established charity still in existence is thought to be the Hospital of St. Oswald in Worcester, founded around 990. What I found disturbing is that even though the almshouses in Great Britain survive and thrive – after many adaptations to this day – the almshouses established in the United States evolved to become very bad places. (Almshouses.org website) In our text, we read that in the United States, human services were established and modeled according to the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601, and that the first principle laid down in the colonies defined poor relief as a public responsibility. Another principle stipulated that people would be denied support if they had family members who were not poor, i.e., parents, grandparents, adult children, or grandchildren. (Woodside, p. 33) This entire subject area is fascinating. Early Peoples Recorded In History In researching “human services from the early peoples recorded in history” we can go back pretty far. Human services,...
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...CCTs and UCTs seem very attractive to aid donors. I have summarized the following points to help you understand my analysis: CCTs: Purpose: CCTs usually has very distinctive priorities, such as supporting individual household with health, education and helping woman (The Economist, 2013). Pros: 1) CCTs can focus on helping the children improve their education and cut future poverty (Mohan, 2013). 2) CCTs usually works better when dealing with the root causes of poverty and, it can help families escape from poverty once for all (The Economist, 2013). Con: 1) Some recipients eligible for CCTs fail to meet the conditions due to some unmanageable condition (The Economist, 2013). UCTs: Purpose: It simply handing out cash to the poor without condition attached and relieves people from poverty (Mohan, 2013). Pros: 1) UCTs is cheaper than CCTs to run (The Economist, 2013). 2) UCTs is best suitable when the money is the main issue (Mohan, 2013). . 3) UCTs seem has better results than the traditional aid program (such as job-training programs) (Mohan, 2013). Con: 1) There is no long term effect has been able to assessed (Baird, 2013). Heifer...
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...Running head: Cultural Influence in Development Cultural Influences in Development Fhameka Lewis February 10, 2015 Argosy University Single Moms Single moms face a challenge within their lives. Some mothers become single through divorce and while others become single outside of wedlock. However, there is no set age for a single mom. Statics states that most females become single moms before they finish high school and is receiving some type of government assistance for help. The average single mom has either dropped out of school or working a minimum paying job. Because of the high cost of living rate it is impossible for these single moms to provide a healthy life for their children. Therefore the Department of Human Service is stepping up to the platform to help these moms seek better jobs and receive a better education. The Jefferson County Department of Human Services will be offering a variety of workshops for all single moms in the surrounding communities. The workshop is called Single Moms Taking Control, and will be on Thursday June 3, 2015 during the hours of 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The purpose of the workshop will be to provide guidance and resources for all the single moms who which to go back to school to receive their GED or for those who which to obtain a degree in higher education. The workshops will also help the moms with resources to maintaining a healthy relationship with their family. Also throughout the workshops there will be venders there...
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