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Clément, Alain. "Revenu minimum : les leçons de Speenhamland." I. La nouvelle architecture des minima sociaux, no. 42 (October 2, 2002): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/005076ar.

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RÉSUMÉLa mise en place en Angleterre à la fin du XVIIIe siècle d'une loi sociale connue sous le nom de Speenhamland marque les débuts de l'histoire du revenu minimum. L'application de la mesure et les débats qu'elle a suscités ont malheureusement jeté un doute sur la volonté et la difficulté de garantir à tout individu un droit à la subsistance, un droit à la vie. L'histoire de cette expérience est riche d'enseignements pour la période contemporaine, qui s'engage dans la voie des minima sociaux et dans les débats à propos de l'allocation universelle.

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Taylor, James Stephen. "A Different Kind of Speenhamland: Nonresident Relief in the Industrial Revolution." Journal of British Studies 30, no. 2 (April 1991): 183–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/385979.

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“Speenhamland” is a word popularized by late nineteenth-century historians as a derogatory term for the systematic subsidization of laborers' wages by allowances paid from the poor rates. This system was thought to have flourished in southern and agrarian England in the early nineteenth century, the size of the allowances determined by the size of the family and the price of bread. The unwitting “villains” were the Berkshire justices who met at the Pelican Inn, located in a tithing of Speen Parish. Moved by corn dearth and a terrible winter, the justices on May 6, 1795, set in train the fatal hemorrhaging of the Old Poor Law that, in turn, led to the draconian Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.Myth this may largely be, and it has been explored elsewhere; however, no one questions that subsidizing the employed from the poor rates, including allowances in aid of wages, occurred in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is in this sense that “Speenhamland” is used here, but to suggest a radically different and mainly constructive consequence for British economic and social development.For subsidizing the employed poor, when it took the form of nonresident relief, could function as a kind of “Industrial Speenhamland” (freshly coined), to wit: a system of parochially funded labor migration that promoted a work force for expanding industries. This subsidization could include allowances in aid of wages as well as other welfare benefits in times of sickness and unemployment—all at the expense of the home parish or township, not of the places in which the factories and industrial workshops were located.

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WRIGLEY, E. A., and RICHARD SMITH. "MALTHUS AND THE POOR LAW." Historical Journal 63, no. 1 (April 29, 2019): 33–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x19000177.

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AbstractMalthus was severely critical of the old poor law, especially when the payments paid to recipients were made in conformity to the principles adopted by the local magistrates in Speenhamland in 1795. He considered that it encouraged early and improvident marriage with unfortunate consequences. There have been a number of attempts to determine whether Malthus was justified in supposing that the old poor law had this effect, some concluding that he was correct in his assumption, others that he was mistaken. The information contained in the first four English censuses did not include a breakdown of the population by age, sex, and marital status, and therefore did not provide a basis for a definitive test of Malthus's assertion before the repeal of the old poor law in 1834. The 1851 census, however, did provide this breakdown for five-year age groups which makes it possible to compare marriage patterns in counties in which a large proportion of the male workforce were ‘peasants’ (Malthus's term for agricultural labourers), and the Speenhamland provisions were widely adopted, with other counties. The results show that Malthus was mistaken.

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Block, Fred, and Margaret Somers. "In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law." Politics & Society 31, no. 2 (June 2003): 283–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329203252272.

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Orsi, Cosma. "THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INCLUSION: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WORKHOUSE SYSTEM." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 39, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 453–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1053837216000249.

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The aim of this article is to describe the rise and fall of the workhouse system in connection with the developments that took place in economic thought in the transition from mercantilism to the Classical tradition. By examining the economic debate about wages, efficiency, labor market, workers’ mobility, and unemployment, we discuss whether the social policy shift epitomized by institutional reforms like the Gilbert Act (1782), the Rose Act (1793), and the Speenhamland system (1795) was accompanied and eventually inspired by a change in the perception of major political economy issues. In doing so, we review the writings of Jacob Vanderlint (d. 1740), George Berkeley (1685–1753), Malachy Postlethwayt (1707?–1767), Josiah Tucker (1713–1799), David Hume (1711–1776), and Adam Smith (1723-1790), among others. Although a direct influence by these writers cannot be proven, the originality of the present work rests on the effort to put into perspective the arguments elaborated by economic thinkers and the proposals made by social reformers so as to identify possible connections between economic theorizing and social legislation.

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Jones, Peter. "Swing, Speenhamland and rural social relations: the ‘moral economy’ of the English crowd in the nineteenth century1." Social History 32, no. 3 (August 2007): 271–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071020701425304.

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Byunghyun Park. "Comparative Study of Speenhamland of England, Family Assistance Plan of USA, and National Basic Livelihood Security Program of Korea." Social Welfare Policy 43, no. 2 (June 2016): 159–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.15855/swp.2016.43.2.159.

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Baars, Grietje. "'Reform or revolution'? Polanyian versus Marxian perspectives on the regulation of the economic." Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 62, no. 4 (March 10, 2020): 415–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v62i4.428.

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Rosa Luxembourg’s 1900 pamphlet 'Reform or revolution', which critiqued reformist political strategy, has relevance to, and finds echoes in today’s debates on the possibility and desirability of using law to protect society from the market’s negative effects. It also summed up the nineteenth-century 'Polanyian' reformist and Marxist 'revolutionary' perspectives. Polanyi argued that 'the economic' must be 'embedded' in the social by means of legal regulation, an argument he illustrates with the help of the 'Speenhamland' example. Marx, while acknowledging the role of the legal struggle as part of class struggle, concludes that ultimately 'right can never be higher than the economic structure of society'. Marxist legal theorist Pashukanis developed this position in his 'commodity form theory of law' which points to the structural impossibility of law’s regulation of capitalism. While contemporary 'Polanyist' Ruggie again asserts that legal and soft law 'global governance' regimes can control capitalism’s main instrument, the corporation, Shamir contra Ruggie argues that the 'moralisation of markets' through corporate social responsibility (CSR) leads to the 'marketisation of morality' or a change in what we perceive law to be (and who has legitimate authority to regulate) rather than a 'taming' of markets. Following Shamir, I add that this corporate-led global governance hastens the collapse of capitalism, and confirms the inevitability of revolution and the subsequent creation of a law-free society.

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Losonc, Alpar. "Karl Polanyi, the transition, and the social capital." Sociologija 46, no. 4 (2004): 327–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc0404327l.

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Taking into account the theoretical contributions to the genesis of capitalism the opus of Karl Polanyi represents the classical approach in the economic sociology and political economy. Describing the Speenhamland-narration in England Polanyi has thematised the contradiction that deeply characterized the capitalist system, namely the contradiction between the disembedded marketization and the societal self-defence. It is to be accentuated that this contradiction is immanent contra certain interpretations that arouse out during the last two decades. Polanyi?s critical work could not been integrated into the conservative attacks on the welfare arrangements and could not been explicated as the theory of organized welfare capitalism. The hypothesis that orientates this article is that Polanyi?s achievement is of crucial importance for the rereading of the transition-processes but it is to be corrected on the basis of certain interpretation of social capital. I argue that the tension of embedded ness and disembeddedness is at the center of Polanyi?s work. At the same time there is a dilemma in relation to the character of the meanings and forms of embedded ness. Due to the contribution of the literature on the social capital we can reuse it in the light of the solving of problems of the collective action. The level of embedded ness is not an expression of a neutral constellation. The social capital provides a framework for the explanation of the institutional constraints that are subject to conflict amongst the societal agents. In this way, the double movement that is depicted in the Great Transformation could be rearticulated by the conflict-centered view that ties in nicely with the concerns of those emphasizing the importance of voice, political goods and ethical limits of market.

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Putka, Robert. "Spamming Speenhamland: A Social Safety Net Boogeyman Borne of a Patently Supply-Side Legal Framework." SSRN Electronic Journal, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4818507.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Speenhamland"

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Barker-Read, Mary. "The treatment of the aged poor in five selected west Kent parishes from settlement to Speenhamland (1662-1797)." n.p, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Barker-Read, M. "The treatment of the aged poor in five selected West Kent parishes from Settlement to Speenhamland (1662-1797)." Thesis, Open University, 1988. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57030/.

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This thesis breaks new ground in Poor Law Studies. It isolates for detailed scrutiny the treatment of a particular social group, the aged poor. Traditional sources have been approached for new answers to new questions, and in so doing, new methods of source exploitation have been evolved and utilised. The sources have been asked to provide information about dependent old age; the relationship between poverty and the length of the working life; sex differences; the proportion of the population which ended life as parish paupers. Key research has centred around the parish pension, its function, size and real value; crucially, the ability or otherwise of the pensioner to subsist on it. Consideration has also been given to the other components of the network of relief measures adopted by the parishes; relief in kind; housing and the standard of living; medical and nursing care; the role of the workhouse. The investigation has been carried beyond the limits of relief provided by the mechanisms of the Old Poor Law alone, to include external supportive agencies, such as the support of family and charity, which includes both charitable trusts and indiscriminate giving. Some light is thrown on ways the aged contributed to their own maintenance. The thesis tests the general hypothesis that all these various supportive systems produced an interlocking apparatus which involved the whole community in the support of the old, while to discuss their treatment within the limits of the poor law only, results in a narrow, incomplete and distorted narrative, serving only to perpetuate the traditional historical view of a harsh, punitive treatment, needing reassessment in the light of recent historical developments.

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Books on the topic "Speenhamland"

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Ehrngruber, Marina. Speenhamland-System - Selbsterzeugter Pauperismus Oder Moderne Sozialpolitik? GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2011.

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Hesse, Rüdiger. WARUM IST DAS SPEENHAMLAND-SYSTEM EIN REAKTIONÄRER PATERNALISMUS? GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2012.

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Polanyi, Karl. Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Penguin Books, Limited, 2024.

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Polanyi, Karl, Silvio García-Aguirre, and Julia; Fernando Varela; Álvarez-Uria. La gran transformación: Crítica del liberalismo económico. Virus Editorial, 2016.

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Polanyi, Karl, Silvio García-Aguirre, and Julia; Fernando Varela; Álvarez-Uria. La gran transformación: Crítica del liberalismo económico. Virus Editorial, 2016.

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Contributors, See Notes Multiple. An Act for Repairing the Highways From Speenhamland Adjoyning to Newbury in the County of Berks, to Marlborough in the County of Wilts. Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Speenhamland"

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Craig, Sheryl. "Pride and Prejudice: The Speenhamland System." In Jane Austen and the State of the Nation, 48–71. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137544551_4.

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Patriquin, Larry. "Speenhamland, Settlement and the New Poor Law." In Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500–1860, 117–50. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230591387_5.

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Grover, Chris, and John Stewart. "Speenhamland: In-Work Relief at the Dawn of Modernity." In The Work Connection, 120–47. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230510425_6.

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"Speenhamland, n." In Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oed/4634259616.

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Jordan, Bill. "Speenhamland Come Back—All Is Forgiven." In Paupers, 1–23. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429486777-1.

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Block, Fred, and Margaret Somers. "In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law." In The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, 13–54. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315239934-2.

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"5. In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law." In The Power of Market Fundamentalism, 114–49. Harvard University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674416345.c5.

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