1 Why did the Liberal party try to help the poor? Laissez Faire to Interventionism 2 What is meant by Social Welfare? Social Welfare means the well- being of all the people in the land. 3 What areas of life does the term Social Welfare apply to? Health Education living and working conditions Unemployment old age NO WORK! 4 By the middle of the 19th century governments were forced to ask themselves - 1. Should a government interfere in the nations social welfare? 2. Should governments try to end poverty and solve other social problems? 5 Why did governments have to start tackling poverty? The following factors increased the numbers of poor and, by their sheer scale, made their problems everyones problems: The Industrial Revolution The growth of the UKs population The urbanisation of the UK population 6 HW: Choose extended essay topic Do activities at end of chapter on Liberal Reforms Due on: Mon Why did the Liberals Reform Poverty? ClassworkDate:________ Starter: 4 kinds of freedom Think of examples of each kind PhysicalMental By others By self No chainsNo threats ? Anorexia ? Funda- mentalism No fear 7 Solve the problems of the poor Amy is a miners wife in Newbattle in It is astonishingly expensive to buy food in the area. The one shop is owned by the mine which charges up to double the original cost of goods. You have no time to go into Edinburgh to buy things because youre working. Anyway it would cost to travel that far. The shop also gives you credit which is docked directly from your salary.Solve it Kieran is a fisherman in Musselburgh in Roughly once a week someone gets killed at sea. You hope it wont be you, but if it is- what would happen to your wife and 11 children? Or what would happen even if you just got badly injured? Isla is a papermaker in Bilston in Your bosses have cut your wages again. You cannot do anything except make paper, and there are no other paper factories nearby. What will you do? Regine is a docker in Leith. Everyday he goes to ask for work, but what happens when he cant get work. The rest of the class work down the mines in Newbattle. They earn some money for their parents (though not much). One of you- Rhys, wants to better himself by getting an education- but its too expensive. What can he do? 8 Why did the Liberal party try to help the poor? 1. Researchers 2. National security 3. National efficiency 4. New ideas 5. Political advantage 6. Hans Rosling on improvements in health and poverty Hans Rosling on improvements in health and poverty 9 What was the 19 th century attitude to the poor? = government should interfere in peoples lives as little as possible. People = self-reliant. Politicians reluctant = very expensive = taxes for rich 10 19 th C attitude = Laissez-faire = Government should not pass lots of laws Laissez Faire = to leave alone 11 What did Victorians believe caused poverty? 12 Norman Pearson believed the poor were made of inferior materialand cannot be improved [They are] poor in their blood and their bones. 13 Why Laissez-Faire? + severe economic depression in the late 1800s = mass unemployment So government help = very expensive =Taxes increase for everyone Rich feltwhy should they help the lazy, drunken, poor people 14 So how did Victorians help the poor? The poor should meet all the ordinary circumstances of life, relying not upon public or private charity, but upon their own industry and thrift, and upon the powers of self-help that are to be developed by individual and collective effort. Charity Organisation Society, 1876 Good works = private charity Poor law = the work house 15 What was laissez-faire? Put these statements in your own words Adam Smith Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. Samuel Smiles A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be. Asquith The first duty of Liberal government is the reduction of expenditure. John Bright To sell freely would be a great advantage, as to buy freely is a great advantage Samuel Smiles (again) Whatever is done for men..takes away the necessity for doing it themselvesand to render them helpless The Bible The poor are always with us. Love your neighbour as yourself. 16 TASK! Explain in a paragraph or more what Laissez- Faire meant and how society viewed the poor. Go on to give details of why the government did not help with the social problems of the time. Also, why did Britain need a welfare state? 17 What was the alternative to Laissez-Faire? = Interventionism, = government intervenes by passing a law to solve a social problem. 18 Why did governments begin to help the poor? Self help shown not to work 19 Why did Laissez-faire not work? Problem of poverty grew 1870s-90s depression- unemployment Poor law overloaded Charities not affective for all poor Booth and Rowntree Reports showed self- help didnt work Bitter Cry of Outcast London Boer War Shifting views of: Quaker manufacturers: Cadbury, Rowntree Politicians:Joe Chamberlain, Churchill I see little glory in an Empire which can rule the waves and is unable to flush the sewers 20 Why did the Liberals start to move away from Laissez-faire? 1. What was Laissez-faire? 2. Who wrote shocking reports on poverty What did the reports say? 4. Which war were recruits too weak for? 5. What was the reason for their weakness? 6. Which countries were threatening Britain? 7. How were they beating Britain? 8. Who were the New Liberals? 9. What was new about them? 10. Which party was threatening to take the Liberals votes? 21 Why did the Liberals start to move away from Laissez-faire? Reports of Booth and Rowntree National security National efficiency New Liberalism (Compassion) Political advantage: Pressure from the Labour movement Liberal politicians wanting to make their names Need to seem different from the Conservatives 22 Reason for change #1 The researchers: Booth Charles Booth, Life and labour of the people of London, Discovered that some 30% of Londons population were poor. 23 Distribution of the different classes in London, Booth 24 Booths findings Charles Booth created classifications for the people that he interviewed Athe lowest class occasional workers, loafers and semi-criminals Bthe very poor casual labour, hand-to-mouth existence, chronic want C and Dthe Poor including small earnings due to irregular employment, and ill-paid but regular workers E and F the regularly employed and fairly paid working class of all grades 25 What does this source show us? How useful is it? 26 The researchers: Rowntree Seebohm Rowntree, Poverty: a study of town life, 1901, York. His findings supported Booths research and proved that London was not a special case. Developed the idea of the Poverty cycle & poverty line 27 Rowntrees findings Seebhom Rowntree established what a family needed to earn to buy adequate food and fuel and to pay rent He found that 52% of people were very poor, were paid wages too low to sustain an adequate life Around 21% of families lived in misery because the chief wage earner had died or was too ill or too old to work 28 What then were the real causes of poverty? They were: Low wages Seasonal or intermittent work Illness and/or accident Lack of education Large families Old age 29 30 So did the research of these men change public attitudes? Yes, though slowly (largely because of the expense which was going to be involved in solving social problems) 31 Reason for change #2 National Security 1899 Boer war. 25% of recruits unfit How could they protect Britains empire? Inter-departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration 1904 report Recommended free school meals and medical examinations to improve health 32 Reason for change #3 National Efficiency 1860 Britain richest country in world 1890 Germany, USA overtaking Germany had pensions & welfare benefits Maybe this why their workers could produce more? 33 Reason for change #4 Political advantage Working classes got vote 1884 Labour party set up in 1900 Liberals needed New idea to attract them Young Liberal politicians needed to get famous- eg Churchill, Chamberlain, Lloyd- George Death of Old Liberal PM Campbell Bannerman, 1908 34 Reason for change #5 New Liberal ideas Chamberlain in Birmingham- many public projects eg sewers, housing People more used to government intervention- eg Factory Acts, Health Acts level playing field ie to be free you need to have an equal chance in life from the start Q: Explain why it is Liberal (= freedom) to have a level playing field 35 Other reasons for change #6 20 years of Consevatives in power by needed to win votes Compassion- ie the right thing to do 36 Make the middle box happen: Why did the Liberals reform? Use your notes, & Wood, p to provide evidence Pressure from reports on poverty? Rowntree and Booth New liberalism? New ideas for state intervention Political Pragmatism? the Liberals could lose votes to Labour if nothing was done to improve the poor conditions National Efficiency? Britain was no longer the top industrial nation National Security? Could Britain defend itself in a major conflict? 37 Why did the Liberals reform? Use a textbook to find evidence= names, nos, dates, quotes Political advantage & the rise of Labour Were Labour increasing their vote?Wood, p. 51 col 2 Is there evidence that the Liberals were worried p Is there evidence that Labour wasnt really a threat? P. 54 Research into poverty P. 83 of Wood Evidence that the old system wasnt working p. 89 Changing ideas / Politicians and New Liberals P get some quotes to show what they were thinking National security P. 93 38 Liberal Reforms ( ) A large programme of social reform took place to help They tried to show they understood poverty and why it was a problem They wanted to make changes through reform because of the following 39 British Prime Ministers DisraeliCons1867 GladstoneLib1884 SalisburyCons1890s Campbell BannermanLib1906 AsquithLib1908 Lloyd-GeorgeLib1915 MacDonaldLab1924 Baldwin / Chamberlain Cons1930s ChurchillCons1940 AttleeLab1945 40 What was Britain like in 1906? m?442m?442 Watch Andrew Marrs History of Britain Note 20+ facts under the headings: 1. Women 2. Poverty 3. Liberal Reforms 41 What were the solutions of the Liberal Government? Royal Commission 1905 Campbell-Bannerman PM 1906 Landslide election New Liberal ideas Higher spending to relieve poverty Higher taxes to raise money Budget 1909 Income tax, super tax, duties, land tax 42 Conclusion increasing awareness of the true causes of poverty reformers said old Poor Law of 1832 = inadequate. Move for government to create level playing field 43 How successful were the Liberal Reforms? Int 2: answer questions on p of your booklet Highers: Read p of Wood & answer: 1. How successfully did the Liberals raise money to pay for reform? 2. What problems were there with officials to run the reforms? 3. Find 3 improvements and 3 problems with reforms for children 4. Quote & fact to prove that reforms for the elderly were successful 5. Find 3 improvements and 3 problems with employment reforms 6. Find 3 criticisms of the reforms in Health insurance 44 HW: exam question Highers: Answer exam question To what extent was the rise of the Labour movement the main reason for the Liberal Reforms? 45TASK On page 93 of Wood, answer all five of the questions. These questions ask for your opinion as to whether you feel the government of the time was effective in their reforming Britain or could they have done more ?