History A-Level
Poor Law administration and pauper apprenticeship
What Poor Law administration and pauper apprenticeship means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Parish overseers relieved ratepayers by sending dependent children to the mill, gaining savings while Greg gained a compliant workforce.
Topics that use Poor Law administration and pauper apprenticeship
- Paper 3, Option 34.1: Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society - 2 Samuel Greg: cotton and cottages, 1784–1816 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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