The question at issue - the impact of the laws of settlement on the labour market - involves various aspects of pauper migration.
These treaties regulated the deportation of troublesome foreigners, such as paupers, vagrants, itinerant tradesmen, showmen, and criminals.
Thus instead of paying wages to proper servants, such farms exploited parish paupers and were even paid money to do so by poor relief authorities.
Local government provided medical care for paupers free of charge in their homes or in a workhouse infirmary.
Did it matter if the pauper was from a proximate or distant parish?
He saw the hospice merely as a place of lodging for the paupers, not where they should perform most of their activities.
Certainly the degree to which the union could trust the pauper had suddenly come to the foreground.
I mention the pauper funeral here because its specter motivated members of the working class to avoid its ignominy at whatever cost.
