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The Poor Laws

In Our Time: History

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Often the Poor Are the Ones Driving the Scandal

i think the on thing that we did miss out, as well as is that the poor actually, there is a fear, and there is a stigma but they're also pretty good at using the poor, or in navigating their ways. Even with a system that's very hostile to them, they can be made quite empowering choices out of it. They con test absolutely everything, sometimes through wiot riots and scandal. Often paupers are the ones driving the scandal,. Am, but they con test. And you see thisdd, at one point in in 18 82, the government is so concerned the number of letters arriving, that the the local government board says, we really must stop these

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