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3.5 Local Government Board and other relief., STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF…
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The issued a circular condemning outdoor relief and suggested that it did not encourage paupers to save for hard times as they could get it whenever.
They supported Parishes that took a harsh stance against able bodied paupers. Eg In east London deterrent workhouses were built to make the underserving poor to carry out harsh work.
It authorised boards of Guardians to take part emigration schemes whereby paupers were sponsored to emigrate.
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Friendly societies started off as groups of workers or friends who joined together for times of need. They would each put in a weekly subscription and then they would be entitled to a payment in times of need.
By 1847 Friendly Societes movement had became an organisation with central bodies to which individual societies (lodges) could affiliate.
The Biggest Friendly Society was the Manchester Society of Old Fellows, which had 3,000 Lodges associated to it, half of these were founded after the Poor Law Amendment Act. By 1877 membership topped 2.7 million.
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Those who could not afford a Friendly Society joined a burial society with the fear of having a pauper funeral.
For 1d a week Blackburn Burial society would offer £4 for a funeral.
The Royal Liver Society had a membership of 550,000 by 1850.
By the 1880 the 3 largest burial societies had over 4 million members.
They were skill or work based and offered workers a range of benefits for a weekly fee. These benefits could have been sick pay or a pension.
Amalgamated Society for engineers (ASE) was founded in 1851. Members of these unions could afford a weekly payment of 1s and get benefits. The ASE offered pensions and benefits for sickness and death.
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