L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Conditions, Child Labour, Healthy City
Document Summary
Natural resources, inland waterways and government policies: a lot of natural resources like coals used to fire factories, faster industrialization and urbanization. 1801-1841: london grew from 1-2 million people. Urban population in england doubled from 17-30% Enclosure, the new poor law (1834), and rural-urban demography. Evict squatter or settlers off the landholdings and they would move into cities. Parliament lobbed by emerging industrial class needed workers for factories. New plowing techniques allowed them to grow food more readily. Journalists that do investigate work in underbellies of societies. Against laissez faire; what is role of the government. Fundamental debate of how to manage urban human conditions. Defining moment in history of west new poor law. Why london became overcrowded in the 1800s. 1601 elizabethan passed the poor law. Encouraged churches and village institution to give free assistance to not able- bodied people.
