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Palmer goes into great detail on how the massive depopulation during the Black Death led to the passage the Statute of Labourers and how it was used to force the able bodied of the lower classes to work and set maximum wages and prices. (Chapter 3 pg. 14-27) According to Wikipedia the law was not repealed until 1863.
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    • A flaw of the Act of Settlement was that it encouraged neighboring parishes to fight over who had responsibility for certain poor people, which created a large administrative burden and highlighted the need for a larger unit that the parish for poor relief.[53]
    • The 1697 Act also attempted to address the deficiency of work for the poor by requiring workmen to take on pauper apprentices. Recognizing that there was simply not enough money to supplement all of the poor, it also attempted shame parishes into giving more money by requiring those receiving pensions from the parish to wear outward badges.[54]
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Rise of the Working Class and Corresponding Legal Changes

    • By the late 18th century, ~1 million people were receiving parish poor relief. [55]
    • Bread Riots common until 1840s. [56] Also of note is the Great Cheese Riot of 1764, where "whole cheeses were rolled down the streets." [57] These riots peaked during the famine of 1795. [58]
    • Between 1760 and 1810, sixty-three new capital offenses are created, primarily for property crimes. [59] -- FrancisWhite
 
[1] Ordinance of Laborers 1349, full text available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/seth/ordinance-labourers.asp (I always thought Prof. Moglen was joking when he started writs with "The king to the sheriff, greeting," but it actually does begin exactly that way.) [2] Statute of Laborers 1351, full text available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/seth/statute-labourers.asp
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 [52] Slack at 62. [53] Slack at 37. [54] Slack at 39-40, 62.
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>		[55] E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, at 147. Full text available at https://libcom.org/library/making-english-working-class-ep-thompson [56] Thompson at 122. [57] Thompson at 124. [58] Thompson at 127. [59] Thompson at 117.
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