Poverty
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- Created on: 09-04-18 14:41
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- Poverty
- The Problem of the Poor
- poverty in Elizabeth's reign
- more than 80% of money on bread
- being unemployed/ ill
- unable to afford rising cost of food
- needing financial help
- types of poor
- widows/ abandoned women
- sick & elderly
- orphaned children
- people on low wages
- itinerants, vagrants & vagabonds
- Reasons for poverty
- Population growth (3 million to 4 million)
- increasing demand for land (people need more land due to population)
- growth in towns (rent & food costs rose)
- Bad harvest
- economic recession
- sheep farming (growth of wool trade)
- enclosure (land divided up = denial of use of common land)
- Population growth (3 million to 4 million)
- poverty in Elizabeth's reign
- Changing Attitudes
- poverty--> disorder= rebellion
- poverty became more visible
- change to economic circumstances= constructive attitudes toward poor
- types of poor
- deserving/ impotent poor (those who couldn't help themselves)
- idle poor (those who could work but chose not to)
- poor should be given chance to better themselves
- many were suspicious of the poor= demonised them
- The Problem of the Poor
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