FRENCH REVOLUTION economic reforms
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- Created on: 27-04-16 19:57
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- Economic reforms
- Deputies in the Constituent Assembly believed in laissez-faire so they introduced free trade in grain August 1789
- October 1790 internal tariffs were abolished, national market created for the first time
- Aimed to open up a range of crafts and occupations to more people
- Guilds were abolished in 1791 as they had restricted the entry of people
- June 1791, a coalition of 80,000 Parisian workers was threatening a gneral strike- Assembly passed Le Chapelier law
- Banned trade unions, collective bargaining and picketing
- Success as bans on trade unions were only lifted in 1884
- Banned trade unions, collective bargaining and picketing
- Relief for the poor- duty of the State
- 1791 concluded, two million people could support themselves by begging
- FAILURE Committee did not have enough money, no action was taken
- 1791 concluded, two million people could support themselves by begging
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