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SUMMARY:Living at their own hand? Policing the youthful poor in rural Engl
 and\, c. 1620-c.1750 - Tim Wales\, Institute of Historical Research
DTSTART:20091119T170000Z
DTEND:20091119T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This paper discusses attempts to enforce the authority of empl
 oyers and parish officers through drives to force youths into agriculture 
 service in rural England in the C17th and early \nC18th\, both as labour d
 iscipline and attempts to regulate poor households. It explores why young 
 women were more likely to be prosecuted than young men throughout the seve
 nteenth \ncentury\, in terms of parochial expectations and challenges to t
 he parental authority of the poor.  The offence evidently became more sign
 ificant after 1650\, a response to labour shortage in a changing demograph
 ic and economic context and as part of a nexus of changes in social policy
  which served to focus attention on the definition of appropriate labour a
 nd living standards for the poor. Finally\, the paper questions the effect
 iveness of enforcement \neven as it argues how much it reveals about the d
 ynamics of the relationship of the poor – both the young and  households
  generally – with local officers\, and the limits of the latter’s powe
 r. 
LOCATION:Erasmus Room\, Queens College
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