HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I Urban Life II A New Culture of work time and work discipline III The experience of artisans custom and unregulated competition Outline of Current Lecture I The experience of artisans custom and unregulated competition A Master journeyman apprentice B Custom 1 Customs about everything 2 Apprenticeships regulate the job market lowers standards 3 Custom v Competition 4 Weakening of apprenticeship practice i Industrialization is a challenge to their mastership of the craft assault on ability of artisans to control their working life proletarianization C Political reform 1 Chartist organization of artisans demanding mass democracy universal suffrage for men 2 Socialism 3 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 communities II The problem of poverty A Wider background rural society and paternalism B England and the old poor law 1 Elizabeth 1558 1603 i Poor law based upon local communities Parish basis of local government even 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 taxes iii Workhouses mostly received out relief instead received a regular stipend dole from overseers in order to continue living on their own iv This system developed in order to maintain public order as well as being based upon Christian charity C The new poor law 1834 1 Poor law unions responsible for administering poor laws i 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 disincentive
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