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paupérisme

pauperism

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Conditions were harsh, based on the theory that pauperism among able-bodied workers was a moral failing. en.wikipedia.org

The more extensive, finally, the pauperized sections of the working class and the industrial reserve army, the greater is official pauperism. monthlyreview.org

One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. en.wikipedia.org

Even during the workhouse era the core function was to tend and care for the sick and infirm, since ill-health and infirmity was the main cause of pauperism. en.wikipedia.org

Later he was associated with a variety of social questions, such as charities, pauperism, and the like, and in the treatment of these. en.wikipedia.org

The working class were virtually destroyed by benefit means-testing leading to deepening pauperism the effects of which are only too visible. www.catholicherald.co.uk

The movement considered many other attributes to be hereditary -- from feeblemindedness, pauperism and criminality to promiscuity among women and even love of the sea. www.npr.org

On top of that there was the whole additional realm of official pauperism, which concealed even more elements of the reserve army. monthlyreview.org

He confronts the feudalism, which is manifested in gigantic triumphant buildings with the pauperism of the exploited workers who built them. en.wikipedia.org

The wages of the agricultural labourer are therefore reduced to a minimum, and he always stands with one foot already in the swamp of pauperism. monthlyreview.org

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