poor laws
Indigent relief statutes
Poor laws were statutes in England and later Britain governing public relief for the destitute, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth.
The term encompasses various acts that established parish-based systems of aid, workhouses, and distinctions between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor.
The Victorian poor laws made poverty itself seem criminal.
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- privationLack of necessities
want · hardship · impoverishment · begging · squalor · underclass · subsistence · vagabond
Enacted written rule
- actDeed or performance
- amendmentChange to official text
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- enactmentPassing into law
provision · clause · regulation · repeal · parliament · commissioner · guardian · union
State benefit payments
- allowanceFixed periodic payment
- parish reliefChurch-administered assistance for indigent
- breadLeavened flour product
- in-kindWith goods, not money
roundsman · pension · supplement · domiciliary · able-bodied · wage subsidy · seasonal · harvest
Formal discontinuation of practice
- amendmentChange to official text
- Royal CommissionCrown-appointed investigative panel
- ChadwickEnglish family name
- BenthamUtilitarian ethics founder
Malthus · deterrence · centralization · inspection · classification · 1834 · union · board
Confined facility resident
- pauperPerson in extreme poverty
- gruelThin watery porridge
- dormitoryStudent living building
- oakumTarred hemp for caulking
hard labor · matron · master · able-bodied · infirmary · segregation · discipline · uniform
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
- penuryExtreme lack of money
privation · want · hardship · impoverishment · begging · squalor · underclass · subsistence · vagabond · mendicant
statute
Enacted written rule
enactment · provision · clause · regulation · repeal · parliament · commissioner · guardian · union · settlement
dole
State benefit payments
- allowanceFixed periodic payment
- parish reliefChurch-administered assistance for indigent
- breadLeavened flour product
in-kind · roundsman · pension · supplement · domiciliary · able-bodied · wage subsidy · seasonal · harvest
abolition
Formal discontinuation of practice
- amendmentChange to official text
- Royal CommissionCrown-appointed investigative panel
- ChadwickEnglish family name
Bentham · Malthus · deterrence · centralization · inspection · classification · 1834 · union · board
inmate
Confined facility resident
oakum · hard labor · matron · master · able-bodied · infirmary · segregation · discipline · uniform · admission
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- historical lawattainder, Justinian Code, curtesy, Napoleonic Code, Twelve Tables
- social lawsocial services, social welfare, welfare benefits, social care, public assistance
- Victorian reformpoorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor, factory conditions
- welfare historypoorhouse, poorhouses, workhouse, workhouses, almshouse
- MalthusianismMalthusianism, geometric growth, moral restraint, misery, vice
poor lawsuniversal basic income
Guaranteed payments to all
welfare state · social security · universal healthcare · entitlement programs · social insurance
poor lawswelfare state
Government-funded citizen support system
New Deal · Great Society · National Health Service · Social Security Act · War on Poverty
poor, law, poorly, poorer, poorest, poorness, poverty, laws, lawful