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Great Britain in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

 

So when the rules of the workhouses changed, only people who were unable to work (deserving poor) were allowed to work in there, whereas if you were able to work you had no choice but to work and were not allowed in the workhouses this part of society were called the underserving poor. Higher classes agreed to this for the working class but one of the main first groups who were against this where called 'chartists'.
             The belief that the deserving and the undeserving poor could be distinguished by a simple test: anyone prepared to accept relief in the repellent workhouse must be lacking the moral determination to survive outside it. Edwin Chadwick. (1834). This quote is establishing that the workhouses where a revolting and unhuman place to work/live and that the people who end up there deserve to be, because they don't have the determination or are too lazy to survive outside the walls of a workhouse.
             Poverty in Britain was also affected greatly on the Corn Law. The Corn Law was introduced in 1815; this law resulted in corn being at a higher price throughout Britain. The only people that benefited were landowners who owned the larger pieces of land, meanwhile the urban working class suffered due to spending most of their wages on paying for this in order to survive. The Corn Laws meant that Britain would only accept wheat from foreign countries once the price went to 80 shillings. Working class would be spending large amount of their wages on paying for this food that they were unable to afford manufacturing goods which meant this industry lost out on a lot of money and began to dismiss people from jobs.
             The Corn Law also was a reason for the swing riots, due to the harvests being poor and bread prices rising. Starting from small landowners losing their land, and working class people losing their jobs due to the industrial revolution (machines taking their jobs). By December 1830 nearly 2,000 people involved in the Swing riots were awaiting trial.


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