Poverty, Public Health: Ideogies
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- Created on: 18-04-14 16:01
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- Contemporary Theories
- Thomas Malthus
- Argued that population had an inbuilt tendency to rise and outstrip all available food supplies- the Poor Law made the situation worse because the poor would have more and more children so they could claim more and more relief.
- He was an economist and his views were highly valued
- Favoured the abolition of the Poor Law - ther poor would then keep their families small> no financial advantage in them having lots of children
- Jeremy Bentham
- theory of utilitarianism: society should be organised to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people,
- if wages and prices found their true level in a free market and all state institutions like the Poor Law centrally agreed standards.
- Outdoor relief should be abolished
- responsibility for poor given to profit-making private company.
- theory of utilitarianism: society should be organised to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people,
- Edwin Chadwick
- Developed Bentham's ideas
- The able bodied poor should be kept in workhouses with worse conditions than outside
- with a centralised, controlled authority would reduce the poor rate
- and giving relief to the needy
- with a centralised, controlled authority would reduce the poor rate
- The able bodied poor should be kept in workhouses with worse conditions than outside
- Developed Bentham's ideas
- David Ricardo
- reached same conclusions as Malthus
- put forward the idea of 'iron law of wage'/ believing there was a wages fund in which money from the wages and poor relief was paid
- suggested less money was available for wages as more people were drawn to pauperism thus draining the wages fund
- put forward the idea of 'iron law of wage'/ believing there was a wages fund in which money from the wages and poor relief was paid
- reached same conclusions as Malthus
- Tom Paine
- republican who criticized Poor Laws as it was inadequate
- proposed property tax on the very rich to support systems for the poor
- republican who criticized Poor Laws as it was inadequate
- Thomas Malthus
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