Key People to do with the Poor Law
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- Key People to do with the Poor Law
- David Ricardo
- Iron Law of Wages
- Influenced by Malthus
- Wanted to abolish the Poor Law
- Tom Paine
- Wanted a tax on the rich
- This tax would fund a universal benefit for poor- includes state pension
- Admitted that able paupers would have to enter the workhouse
- Socialist
- Jeremy Bentham
- Utilitarianism
- It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number
- Let bread find "true price"
- Believed in just industry houses-only for the able bodied poor
- Robert Owens
- Socialist
- Factory communities
- 10 hours of work a day, children in school until 10, sick pay
- No poor relief needed
- set up one, and it worked
- Thomas Malthus
- 3 Bashaws of Somerset House
- Nick name for the 3 Poor Law Commissioners
- Disliked- seen as intervention from London who had little experience with the poor
- Abolished after 1847 due to Andover, replaced with Poor Law Board
- Independent from Parliament- greatest strength and weakness
- Weakness- Parliament did not know what was going on
- Strength- not influenced by political decisions
- Sampson Kempthorne
- Hired by the PLC to design new workhouses
- Two designs- Y form, crucifix form
- Edwin Chadwick
- Key reformer
- Came up with the basis of the NPL- utilitarianism
- Not made a commissioner
- Very bitter about this
- After Andover= jumped at the chance to criticize his superiors
- Jeremy Bentham's secretary influenced by him greatly
- Key commissioner of the Commission of Enquriries
- Wanted to start implementation of the NPL in the North- ignored, this backfired on the Commissioners
- Andover
- Henry Parker
- Blamed for Andover scandal
- Assisstant Commissioner- one of 9
- Managed to defend himself- rightly
- Argued that the PLC made his job impossible
- Colin M'Dougal
- Master of Andover
- Thought to be a model
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- Henry Parker
- David Ricardo
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