KnowraPoor Law Amendment Act 1834Linked fromLinked fromThe 6 pages that link to Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, each with the reason it gives.All 6Broader topic 1Related 5Classical economicsRelated: Malthusian ideas about population and relief influenced the period’s contentious poverty-policy debates.Karl PolanyiRelated: Polanyi connected its labor discipline to the construction of a competitive labor market.An Essay on the Principle of PopulationRelated: Malthus’s criticism of poor relief influenced arguments surrounding reform of the English Poor Laws.Ebenezer ScroogeRelated: Dickens’s criticism of punitive attitudes toward poverty echoes in Scrooge’s early views on relief.Amelia DyerRelated: Its harsh relief system formed part of the background to families’ desperate childcare choices.