Poverty and Unemployment
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- Poverty and Unemployment
- Why Are People Poor?
- Jobs were insecure
- Low pay and long hours
- High rents
- Illness, age or inability to work
- Immigrants work cheaper than locals.
- Support for the Poor
- Workhouses
- For those who couldn't afford to live
- For the too old, too young and sick
- Strict rules
- Families split apart
- Told what time to get up and sleep
- Strict rules
- For the too old, too young and sick
- For those who couldn't afford to live
- Infirmary
- At Buck's Row
- Cared for the sick.
- At Buck's Row
- Casual Ward
- At St Thomas' St there was a Casual Ward
- Took 60 people
- For those who didn't want to go into the Workhouse full time.
- Had to work for your bed
- Picking oakum
- Cleaning
- Cooking
- At St Thomas' St there was a Casual Ward
- Doss Houses
- Otherwise known as lodging houses
- These offered a bed on an 8 hour shift
- Would cost 8 shillings for a double bed or 4 for s single.
- For even less you could sleep stood up, hanging from a bit of rope.
- Would cost 8 shillings for a double bed or 4 for s single.
- These offered a bed on an 8 hour shift
- Otherwise known as lodging houses
- The Peabody Estate
- There was a rookery on Royal Mint Street
- The rookery was bought up by the Government as a part of their Artisans Dwelling Act
- But they couldn't sell the land commercially so it went to the Peabody Trust
- They built 286 flats
- They had good ventilation
- They didn't put plaster on, so they had no lice.
- Shared bathrooms and kitchens
- Weekly rent started at 3 shilligs (15p) and was raised to 6 shillings (30p)
- The average weekly wage was for a labourer 22 shillings and 6 pence ( £1.12)
- Some poor families spent as much as a third of their weekly income on rent.
- They built 286 flats
- But they couldn't sell the land commercially so it went to the Peabody Trust
- The rookery was bought up by the Government as a part of their Artisans Dwelling Act
- There was a rookery on Royal Mint Street
- Banardos
- Set up by Dr Thomas Barnardo
- Jim Jarvis shwed him show street children were living on secret rooftops to avoid the Workhouse
- He set up Barnardo's houses which helped street children.
- Jim Jarvis shwed him show street children were living on secret rooftops to avoid the Workhouse
- Set up by Dr Thomas Barnardo
- Workhouses
- Nature of Employment
- Bell Foundary
- A famous factory
- Big Ben was cast here
- A famous factory
- Types of Jobs in Whitechapel
- Tanneries
- Tailors
- Slaughter houses
- Butchers
- Dockyards
- Railway Construction
- Prostitution
- Sweatshops
- Usually contained trades such as tailors, shoe-makers and match makers.
- wages were low
- some slept on site
- 20 hour days
- small, cramped and dusty
- little natural light
- Usually contained trades such as tailors, shoe-makers and match makers.
- Bell Foundary
- Conditions in Whitechapel
- Rookeries
- A rookery is a dense collection of housing, usually in a slum area.
- Characterised by dirt, disease and crime
- Flower and Dean St
- 1971 Census
- 31 doss houses
- 902 lodgers.
- Most were on the brink of starvation
- 902 lodgers.
- 31 doss houses
- very cramped
- yards built over
- Outside toilets
- Pots and buckets as inside toilets often spilled
- Outside toilets
- yards built over
- 1971 Census
- In 1877,one rookery contained 123 rooms, with lodging for 757 people.
- A rookery is a dense collection of housing, usually in a slum area.
- Sanitation and Pollution
- Flower and Dean St
- 1971 Census
- 31 doss houses
- 902 lodgers.
- Most were on the brink of starvation
- 902 lodgers.
- 31 doss houses
- very cramped
- yards built over
- Outside toilets
- Pots and buckets as inside toilets often spilled
- Outside toilets
- yards built over
- 1971 Census
- Little healthy drinking water.
- Sewers ran into the streets
- Smog could be blinding
- Sewers ran into the streets
- Flower and Dean St
- Rookeries
- Why Are People Poor?
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