POVERTY + PAUPERISM Flashcards
(19 cards)
Jeremy Bentham
Act Utilitarianism - greatest good for the greatest number
Propose a National Charity 1796 for the poor
Wanted to abolish outdoor relief
Robert Malthus on Poverty
Claimed Poor Law led to famines
Population increase = harder to deal with the poor
Abolition of poor laws = more money
Thomas Paine on Poverty
Claimed poverty is due to regression
Free commerce /w free rights
Suggests land taxs/redistribution to balance the system
What term describes the economics in Britain
Survival of the fittest economics
Angela Burdett-Coutts
£350 million on philanthropy
1884 - co-founded London Society for the prevention of cruelty for children
Thomas Paine’s Work
Rights of Man 1792
Robert Malthus’ Work
Principle of population 1798
Samuel Smiles
1859 Self-help, saw a character within everybody and reap a destiny
Sold over 20,000 copes in his first year alone
William Booth’s Circle of poverty
Center - People who live by vices
Second circle - People who live in crime
Outer circle - Slowing homeless but genuinely poor.
Outside - all skilled workers in permanent employment forced into poverty
What did William Booth set up?
1865 Salvation Army
Thomas Carytle’s work
Past and the Present 1854, talked about the class divide
Thomas Carytle on the poor
Strong religious influence,
“Poor Law Prisons” talk about the workship of money -
Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist
Published 1858
Where was Oliver Twist first published (not as a novel) and why was it so impactful
Bentley’s Miscellany from 1837 to 1839. While the magazine’s circulation exceeded 100,000 copies per issue
What did Oliver Twist criticise?
Use of workhouses, Dickens in poverty - at the age of 12 his dad was sent to the workhouses
How many workhouses built 1834-1851
402
How many poor houses by 1776
2,000
