Acts Flashcards
1832 Reform Act (First Reform)
Middle Class got the vote but. The property qualifications meant that the majority of working men still could not vote.
1834 Poor Law Ammendemt act
Increased workhouses (Union of some parishes but not others)
also expansion of the docks in this year
1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws
Dropped tariffs on imports
1855 Metropolitan Local Management Act
Founding of the Metropolitan Board of Works (BoW)
1851 - Henry mayhew - London Labour&Poor
1858 The great stink
1863 Dostoyevsky “winter notes on summer impressions”
Apparent disorder that is highest form of bourgeois order.
1860s
opening of the american prairies .
Economic depression due to dock closure. Poor law shot up.
1867 - Metropolitan Poor Act
Money flow from west to east on condition of indoor relief due to shopocracy.
What allowed for slum clearings (miasmic theory
1975 - The Cross Public Health Act & The artisans and labourer’s dwellings improvement act
1880s
Severe econ depression
1883 andrew mearns “bitter cry of outcast london”
1885 Royal commission on housing of WC (INVESTIGATE HOUSING)
1886-7 - unemployment riots. formation of SDF led by Henry Hyndman.
1988- match girls strike
1989 - dockers strike
what was done to investigate housing?
1885 Royal commission on housing of the working class
when did charles booth investigation start?
1886 - stared published books - Life and Labour of the people of london in 1889 and 1901 and later more - up to 1903
Social Housing LCC
LCC 1889 - LOOKed INTO SOCIAL HOSING.
1905 Royal commission on public transport
-municipalising public transport
1905 Unemployment workmans act
employment for the respectable poor
1905 booth recommendations for old age pensions.
unemployment insurance act 1911
national insurance act 1911
sick pay etc
