Abstract
This chapter discusses the implementation of the market principles of capitalism to address the issues concerning poverty and pauperism in Victorian Britain. It examines the impact of the passage of the New Poor Law in 1834 on the condition of the poor people in Britain. It concludes that though the legislation was designed to deal with a rather different sort of problem, the New Poor Law did more or less work. It stigmatized the receipt of public assistance and it was able to contain the burden of local taxation.
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