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- Title
EARLY EXPERIMENTS WITH THE UNEMPLOYED.
- Authors
Brewster, Alice Rollins
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of attempts made in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to deal with the problem of finding employment for those who will not or who cannot find work for themselves. In general, a distinction was made between "vagabonds and strong beggars" and "other poor and needy persons being willing to work." The former were dealt with in houses of correction, while the workhouse furnished employment for the latter class. The statute of 1575 ordered that houses of correction should be provided in each county for punishing and employing unsettled poor. In 1609-10, an act of Parliament once more ordered the establishment of houses of correction, and made the justices responsible for the erection of these houses, and liable to a fine of 5 pounds for every case of neglect of duty. In addition to the workhouses and houses of correction there were other more or less organized efforts to provide work. In Southampton, in 1601, the town permitted tradesmen to set up in the town on the understanding that they should take one or more of the town's children.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; UNEMPLOYMENT; JOB creation; CORRECTIONAL institutions; WORKHOUSES (Correctional institutions); EMPLOYMENT policy; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1894, Vol 9, Issue 1, p88
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1883636