HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 20Outline of Last Lecture I. Urban LifeII. A New Culture of work: time and work disciplineIII. The experience of artisans: custom and unregulated competitionOutline of Current Lecture I. The experience of artisans: custom and unregulated competitionA. Master>journeyman>apprenticeB. Custom1. Customs about everything2. Apprenticeships regulate the job market-lowers standards3. Custom v. Competition4. Weakening of apprenticeship practicei. Industrialization is a challenge to their mastership of the craft-assault on ability of artisans to control their working life (proletarianization***)C. Political reform1. Chartist-organization of artisans demanding mass democracy, universal suffrage for men2. Socialism3. Louis Blanc Organization of Labor (1840)-bank should lend money to group of artisans, organize business cooperatively, and once make money lend money back to other communitiesII. The problem of povertyA. Wider background: rural society and paternalismB. England and the old poor law1. Elizabeth (1558-1603)i. Poor law: based upon local communities (Parish basis of local governmenteven after break with Catholic church)These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.ii. Parish: elected public officials to be Overseers of the Poor who administered land taxesiii. Workhouses: mostly received “out relief” instead; received a regular stipend (dole) from overseers in order to continue living on their owniv. This system developed in order to maintain public order as well as being based upon Christian charityC. The new poor law (1834)1. Poor law unions: responsible for administering poor lawsi. Each poor law union mandated to build at least one work house (workhouse test: abandon individual living)ii. Standard of living in workhouses: lesser eligibility, to be lower than least paid poor person outside workhouse
View Full Document
Unlocking...