Category: History - British
There are two large sections of sociologists who to-day strongly advocate, the one a radical reform of the Poor Law, the other the reform of the Prison system. The modern Poor Law reformer would administer public assistance with greater discrimination, showing more considerati...
There are two large sections of sociologists who to-day strongly advocate, the one a radical reform of the Poor Law, the other the reform of the Prison system. The modern Poor L...
3. CHAPTER III.In whatever direction we look, misguided indulgence is seen to be shown to classes amongst the least deserving in the community. But our systematic playing with this question ca...
11. CHAPTER XI.It is now desirable to review the attitude towards this question of three Commissions who have considered and reported upon it during the past seven years--the Viceregal Poor La...
4. CHAPTER IV.The legislation of Belgium for the treatment of vagrants and mendicants experimented in many directions before it established forced Labour Houses and Colonies for the detention...
10. CHAPTER X.Although legislation in Germany and Switzerland is severe upon the vagrant loafers, generous provision is made in those countries for _bona fide_ seekers of work. This is done b...
9. CHAPTER IX.The practice of confining in forced labour institutions persons who, in various ways, have become defaulters under the Poor Law, particularly by neglecting to maintain dependent...
6. CHAPTER VI.The German method of dealing with vagrants and loafers may be studied in its practical details with great advantage by visiting the Labour House of Benninghausen, in the Prussia...
2. CHAPTER II.The vagrant is only one type of social parasite, however, and in some respects he is not the most obnoxious. When we leave the casual wards and enter the workhouses themselves,...
5. CHAPTER V.The early legislation of Germany relative to begging and vagrancy was not greatly dissimilar in spirit from our own. Down to the sixteenth century Germany was satisfied with the...
8. CHAPTER VIII.It is a noteworthy fact that the treatment of the vagrant and the loafer on disciplinary principles has been carried out most systematically in countries so fundamentally differ...
7. CHAPTER VII.The Labour House at Rummelsburg, near Berlin, is an example of a house of correction for offenders of the classes dealt with at Benninghausen conducted by a municipality. This i...