History GCSE
Able-bodied unemployed
What Able-bodied unemployed means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Able-bodied unemployed
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A third category that emerged alongside the deserving and undeserving poor: people who wanted to work.
Topics that use Able-bodied unemployed
- Option B4: Key topic 3: Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558–88 - 2 The ‘problem’ of the poor (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Agricultural transformation
- Deserving poor
- Economic hardship
- Demographic changes
- Undeserving poor
- Vagabonds
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