Seebohm Rowntree
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- Rowntree’s importance
- Distinguished families suffering from primary and secondary poverty
- Primary = lacked earnings to obtain basic necessities
- Secondary = earnings were sufficient but wasted on things like alcohol
- Provided statistical data on wages, hours of work, nutritional needs, food consumed, health and housing
- Rowntree was a strong supporter of the Liberals
- Him and DLG were friends
- When he becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer he introduces reforms influenced by Rowntree
- Old Age Pensions Act 1908
- When he becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer he introduces reforms influenced by Rowntree
- Him and DLG were friends
- Carried out a study into rural conditions in Britain
- ‘The Land’ published in 1913
- ‘How the Labourer lives’ in 1913
- A detailed study into 52 farming families
- Believed that healthy and well-fed workers were efficient workers
- E.g., he increased wages for 4,000 people at the company
- Said those who paid their workers unfair wages should be put out of business
- E.g., he increased wages for 4,000 people at the company
- Helped to change attitudes about causes of poverty
- Wasn’t caused by laziness, instead a bunch of other reasons like family death or unemployment
- Distinguished families suffering from primary and secondary poverty
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