Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . diminished production. The Poor The next important reform in our economic history was the Ioor Law of 1834, which probably did as much for the ruralpoor as the Factory Act did for the factory workers. As latelyas 1796 England had adopted a sjstem which, in less than Laiv. 1846] THE SOCIAL ECOSOMY. 301 1846] . forty years, reduced almost all agricultural labourers to a positionof pauperism. The system was Nve
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . diminished production. The Poor The next important reform in our economic history was the Ioor Law of 1834, which probably did as much for the ruralpoor as the Factory Act did for the factory workers. As latelyas 1796 England had adopted a sjstem which, in less than Laiv. 1846] THE SOCIAL ECOSOMY. 301 1846] . forty years, reduced almost all agricultural labourers to a positionof pauperism. The system was Nvell It endeavoured toiniti-ate certain evils growing out of the Industria labour is naturally most iu .Icmand during thesmumer But certain improvements in marlnncry deprnedwviculturists of what had been one of their chief winter employ-ments viz. thrashing corn with flails. It was. therefore, thoughtdeslwe that the parish should supplement winter earnmgs,. LORD .., SEVBNTII EAUL OF SlLVrTESBURY.(After James Slater.) wages were exceptionally lo s -V--^ l,achcl ^^i*; ^^ u^ ;« evident,0 vary with the nmnber o^ -^^^ ,. ^^.terprise were ?- T rtirbf .ten io/whi,.!. the parish wasseriously checked bj ^ >,,,,. ^ li,.„,„. ^vage. Moreover,to guarantee what i. -^ -^ ^ ^J^ ^^,,^ early and impro-if an allowance was to be made loi e^e } ratepayers were wasencouraged^^^A^^^^^^ tl^^^ ^IJ^^^ ^^^^^^^ 302 THE NEW SPIRIT AND THE NEW PATHS. Commis-siou of1832. Poor Law Reform. 1834. 11832 employment would be driven to apply for doles to the this actually took place under the old Poor Law. Thriftand industry and enterprise were discouraged. The populationwas increased with a general disregard of parental rates rose at an even greater pace, and an ever-growingproportion of the agricultural
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