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The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (PLAA) ... [10]: clause 16 Any new General Rules had to be laid before Parliament at the start of the next session.
By 1820, before the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 workhouses were already being built to reduce the spiralling cost of poor relief. [58] Boyer suggests several possible reasons for the gradual increase in relief given to able-bodied males, including the enclosure movement and a decline in industries such as wool spinning and lace ...
1834 - Poor Law Amendment Act passed; 1842 - Outdoor Labour Test Order allows outdoor relief despite the Poor Law Amendment Act's ban on it; 1844 - Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order issued to further discourage outdoor relief; 1847 - The Poor Law Commission is abolished and replaced by the Poor Law Board; 1848 - The Huddersfield workhouse ...
The Act of Settlement 1662 restricted poor relief to long-term residents or those born in a parish. In the 18th century, some parishes formed unions to build workhouses for the poor who were able to work. [2] The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 established a stricter workhouse system and created unions of parishes administered by boards of guardians.
Poor law unions existed in England and Wales from 1834 to 1930 for the administration of poor relief. Prior to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 the administration of the English Poor Laws was the responsibility of the vestries of individual parishes, which varied widely in their size, populations, financial resources, rateable values and ...
The 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws was a group set up to decide how to change the Poor Law systems in England and Wales. The group included Nassau Senior , a professor from Oxford University who was against the allowance system , and Edwin Chadwick , who was a Benthamite .
Supervision of how the vestries (of each poor law parish) were administering the English Poor Laws before 1834; Repair of roads and bridges (and appointment of county surveyors) Highway diversions and closure (stopping up of rights of way) Construction and maintenance of county buildings Administration of the county gaol(s)
The Historiography of the Poor Laws can be said to have passed through three distinct phases. Early historiography was concerned with the deficiencies of the Old Poor Law system, later work can be characterized as an early attempt at revisionism before the writings of Mark Blaug present a truly revisionist analysis of the Poor Law system.