Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson and Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law.

  • Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
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1909
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Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson and Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART II. Analysis of the Labour Market from Individual Cases. CHAPTER I. Joint Committee Case Papers, 1904-5 (372 Cases). PAGE Examples of occasional Work 61-4 [;?6'] Examples of combinations of employment 614 [28] Relation between Unemplojed Relief, Poor Law Relief, and opportunities of livelihood afforded by the Labour Market G15 [29] Index to Table of Cases 616 [30] Table—Analysis of Cases 616 [30] Connection between Dependence on Relief, Length of Residence, Liabilities, and Resources - 618 [32] Length of time Casual Workers stay in one house 020 [34] Duration of work of 43 Unemployed Applicants who had Poor Law Relief - - - - 620 [34] Applicants over 50 years of age - G21 [3o] Applications to Joint Committee and Borough Council Relief 621 [3o] CHAPTER n. 1893-4-5 Register and Distress Committee Papers, 1905-6 combined. Examples of changes of Occupation in this period 622 [36] Examples of unchanged Occupations 623 [37] Poor Law Relief (107 out of 228 case.)) - - 623 [37] Details regarding Men described by Relieving Officers as unsatisfactory characters - - - 624 [38] Labourers 624 [38] Painters - 624 [38] Plasterers and others - 625 [39] Youthful Pride re-acting upon wretched Industrial Opportunities - 625 [39] Mentally Defective Cases - 626 [40] CHAPTER III. 217 Cases from 1903-4, 1904-5 Registers, and Distress Committee Papers, 1905-6. Method of selecting Cases - 626 [40] Reports of Relieving Officers 626 [40] Occupations of Men applying in two out of the three years and connection with Poor Law - 627 [4f] Occupations of Men applying in all three years and their connection with Poor Law - - - 627 [4J] Further Details of Poor Law Relief - - - 027 [4J] Table showing Dependence of forty-seven Men upon Wives and Childrea 628 [42\ CHAPTER IV. T\venty-five Men Recommended for Hollbsley Bay Farm Colony, 1905-6. Particulars and Comments :— Labourer., Hawkers, Coachmen, etc. 629 [43] Building Trades 631 [4o] Miscellaneous - - • 031 [4o] Note on Alleged Reason for leaving Last Employment of 2,291 Applicants in 1905-6 - 632 [40] CHAPTER V. The First Rush of Applicants to Register as Unemployed. Recurrents ----- 632 [46] Occupations 633 [^7] Ages ----- 633 [47] Dependants 634 [48]