This was the basis for the development of the Speenhamland system, which made financial provision for low-paid workers.

Two practices were of particular concern: the " roundsman " system, where overseers hired out paupers as cheap labour, and the Speenhamland system, which subsidised low wages without relief.

The Speenhamland system was a form of outdoor relief intended to mitigate rural poverty in England at the end of the 18th century and during the early 19th century.

The system was named after a 1795 meeting at the Pelican Inn in Speenhamland, Berkshire, where a number of local magistrates devised the system as a means to alleviate the distress caused by high grain prices.

The Poor Law Commissioners ' Report of 1834 called the Speenhamland System a " universal system of pauperism ".

Evidence in the last thirty years shows that the bread scale devised during the Speenhamland meeting in 1795 was by no means universal, and that even the system of outdoor relief which found one of its earliest, though not the first, expressions in Speenhamland was not completely widespread.

Mark Blaug's classic 1960 essay The Myth of the Old Poor Law charged the commissioners of 1834 with largely using the Speenhamland system to vilify the old poor law and create will for the passage of a new one.

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Relatively few Gilbert Unions were set up, but supplementing inadequate wages under the Speenhamland system did become established towards the end of the 18th century.

" She was an outspoken critic of the principles of " outdoor relief " or the Speenhamland system of poor relief as operated by various Poor Law Boards.

The way in which poor law funds were disbursed led to a further reduction in agricultural wages, since farmers would pay their workers as little as possible, knowing that the parish fund would top up wages to a basic subsistence level ( see Speenhamland system ).

This period saw a marked increase in poor relief, mainly as a result of successive poor laws including the Speenhamland system which exacerbated the effect of the Enclosure of land and the decline in the wool market.

His empirical case in large part relied upon analysis of the Speenhamland laws, which he saw not only as the last attempt of the squirearchy to preserve the traditional system of production and social order, but also a self-defensive measure on the part of society that mitigated the disruption of the most violent period of economic change.

Speenhamland is a district of Newbury, Berkshire, which gave rise to the Speenhamland system of poor relief in the early 19th century.

Speenhamland appears to have been one among many systems of bread scales, but it most likely owes its notoriety to Frederick Eden's The State of the Poor ( 1797 ).

Though some of Blaug's more drastic assertions may be ill-founded or overly polemical, it appears evident that Speenhamland was by no means a household name, and that since the practice was by January 1795 ( the famous meeting was in May ) being used in various villages, usually in collusion with other means of relieving the poor.

Soon Newbury, in particular Speenhamland, was filled with coaching inns of ever increasing grandeur and size.

Speenhamland in the parish, now part of Newbury, was the eponymous home of the Speenhamland System of outdoor relief.

On September 18, 1654, he was summoned to appear on October 5 before the county commissioners ( known as ' expurgators ') at the Bear Inn, Speenhamland, Berkshire.

The authorities at Speenhamland approved a means-tested sliding-scale of wage supplements in order to mitigate the worst effects of rural poverty.

In 1795, local magistrates, meeting at the George and Pelican Inn in Speenhamland, introduced the Speenhamland System which tied parish welfare payments to the cost of bread.

The civil parish of Newbury consists of the town, and the suburbs of Wash Common, the City, West Fields, East Fields and Speenhamland.

Speenhamland has been seen to aggravate the underlying causes of poverty in any particular parish, but more recent research has shown that it helped prevent chronic poverty and malnutrition, thus avoiding declining productivity in the workforce.

No empirical evidence shows a strong correlation between population rates and Speenhamland though.

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