The Old Poor Law And the New Socialism Or Pauperism And Taxation
The Old Poor Law And the New Socialism Or Pauperism And Taxation
F C Francis Charles Montague
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Sometimes the parish would sell to a farmer the labour of one or more paupers at a certain price, and make up to the pauper the difference between that price and the allowance to which he would be entitled by the scales. In other cases the parish would contract with an individual to have work done for him by the paupers at a given price, the parish paying the wages. In other cases there was a regular auction of pauper labour. In one parish all the unemployed were put up to sale weekly, and ten ...men were knocked down to one farmer for 55. But whatever the details of the system, as applied in various places, its ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW. 19 principle was everywhere the same, and its results were tolerably uniform. The roundsman system, like that of allowance, equalised the bad labourer with the good ; for it ensured to the idle or dishonest as high wages as could be earned by the upright and industrious. In the parish of Goudhurst, in Kent, every man with a wife and three children was entitled to have his wages made up to i2S.
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