The book Old-Age Pensions; a Collection of Short Papers was written by author Loch, Charles Stewart, Sir, 1849-1923 Here you can read free online of Old-Age Pensions; a Collection of Short Papers book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Old-Age Pensions; a Collection of Short Papers a good or bad book?
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It was still a hard matter for him to make a living. But employment, which had been so precarious, was now comparatively certain and constant. The so-called surplus labour had been absorbed or had gone elsewhere. Personal and individual effort to help the poor, which had been almost swamped and made barren of result by bad laws and the overwhelming mass of destitution to be dealt with, was now taking new life, and working in many ways^ THE ENGLISH COUNTRY LABOURER AND THE POOR LAW 165 The Commi...ssioners, as we have seen, in laying down the principle that a man should be responsible for his own sapport, had limited its application to such time of his life as he should be able-bodied. More than that was impossible at the time ; but the freedom it conferred was partial and precarious. When he was sick, and when he was old, he was brought again into bondage to the settlement laws and to the varying moods of relieving oflBcers and of Guardians. In 1834 it had been the economist and the legislator who had forced a limited emancipation on the unwilling pauper.
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