Bricks, Brickmaking, and the Economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834
Bricks, Brickmaking, and the Economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834
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砖块、制砖和旧济贫法的经济：斯塔福德郡 1750-1834 年
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10.1080/0047729x.2024.2303645
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2024
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Tomkins A
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Tomkins A
本文认为制砖之地是由教区贫困救济支持或推动的一项活动。教区的工作计划通常建立在农业工作、纺织制造或非技术性工作，如橡树采摘，但机械化之前制作砖块所必需的手工劳动吸引了一些教区尝试这种形式的艰苦和威慑的劳动。然而，砖的生产并不是在真空中进行的，这确保了整个提供原材料或服务的社区都能感受到教区委托或制作砖的后果，确保这一过程不仅仅是对懒惰贫困的检查。仔细阅读监督人员的凭单，这些收据有时会证明教区付款的细节，这表明了砖块在教区经济中对穷人、教区官员、教区供应商和更广泛的社区的重要性。
This article considers the place of brickmaking as an activity supported or promoted by parish poor relief. Parochial work schemes were typically founded on agricultural work, textile manufacturing, or unskilled tasks like oakum picking, yet the manual exertion was necessarily required for making bricks prior to mechanization attracted some parishes to experiment with this form of hard and deterrent labour. Brick production did not take place in a vacuum, however, ensuring that the consequences of a parish commissioning or making bricks could be felt across the community which supplied raw materials or services, ensuring that the process was not solely a check on indolent poverty. Close reading of overseers’ vouchers, the receipts which sometimes survive attesting to the detail of parish payments, show the significance of brick in parish economies for the paupers, parish officers, parish suppliers, and wider communities.