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Statute of Labourers 1351
In practice, the statute was poorly enforced and unsuccessful, but it set a precedent that distinguished between labourers who were "able in body" to work and ...
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Nov 12, 2002 ... the aged; children; able-bodied males; able bodied females ... the prohibition of relief to adult able-bodied males without the labour test; the ...
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Highways Act 1555 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Every other householder, as well as every other cottager and labourer free to labour, was to send themselves or a substitute able-bodied labourer to work for the ... |
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causes, the reciuitment of migrant labourers, and the socio-economic effects of the withdrawal of many able-bodied young men on the peasant economies of the ...
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We have seen that in every instance in which the able-bodied labourers have been rendered independent of partial relief, or of relief otherwise than in a ...
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Jan 6, 2011 ... Effectively, a person who was able-bodied had to be destitute in order to ... worse than that of the poorest independent labourers; neither was it ...
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Able-bodied labourers have from 11s to 14s a week; boys from 3s 6d to 5s. … boys rarely go to work before they are from 10 to 12 years of age. … Girls are not ...
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John BUCHANNON, able-bodied labourer in constant employment, relieved from Jan. 4, at a cost of 2l. 19s., 4d., ditto. When this last case, the sixty-fifth on the ...
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"As regards the able-bodied labourers who apply for relief, giving them hard work at low wages by the piece, and exacting more work at a lower price than is ...
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The able-bodied labourer who was unemployed because the local labour market could not absorb his skills, was not entitled to relief and had to leave the parish ...
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