Armut WS 201415 Programm I Wer ist Arm

Armut WS 2014/15

Programm I. Wer ist Arm? II. Messung von Armut. III. Armut in Österreich. IV Internationale Messungen. V Armutspolitik in reichen Ländern. VI Wirtschaftswachstum und Armut.

Anforderungen 1. Vier kurze Darstellungen (ca. 10000 Zeichen) einer der angeführten Arbeiten aus jeweils unterschiedlichen Gebieten. (32%) 2. Gruppenarbeit: Darstellung eines spezifischen Armutsproblems (Gruppen zu dritt) (20%). 3. Klausur über den von mir bis Dezember vorgetragenen Stoff im ersten Jännertermin (48%).

Zur gemeinsamen Arbeit Beispiele für mögliche Themen: 1. Armut in einem spezifischen Land; 2. Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit; 3. Armut spezifischer Gruppen; 4. Armut bei Frauen; 5. Verschuldung; 6. Arbeitende Arme; 7. Armut und Kinder; 8. Asylanten; 9. Wohnungslose; 10. Hunger; 11. Kinderarbeit; 12. Armut und Krankheit; … Eine Meldung über das Thema ist bis 15. 11. notwendig!

We cannot make our English cloth so cheap as they do in other countries, because of the strange idleness and stubborness of the poor. . . these poor are so surely that most of them will not work at all, unless they might Earn as much in two days as will keep them a whole week. (The Trade of England Reviewed, 1681, p. 8)

. . . if they [die Armen] can provide themselves sufficient to maintain their manner of Living by working only three days in the Week, they will never work four days. . . particularly when the Framwork Knitters, or Makers of Silk-Stockings had a great Price for their Work, they have been observed seldom to work on Mondays or Tuesdays, but to spend most of that time at the Ale-houses and Wine-Pins; nay almost the whole Company entred into a Confederacy not to work for a Month together, that thereby they might keep up their Prices. . . The Weavers, ’tis is common with them to be drunk on Monday, to have their Heads-ach on Tuesday, and their Tools out of order on Wednesday. As for the Shoe-makers, they’d rather be hang’d than not remember St. Crispin on Munday; and it commonly holds as long as they have a penny worth of Credit; and very often especially the good and quick Workmen, begin their Week’s work on Friday Morning, or perhaps evening. (Houghton, 1681, vol. II, p. 176)

„First, There is a large Room, and in the middle thereof a little Box like a Pulpit. Secondly, There are Benches built round about the Room as they are in our Playhouse: upon the Benches sit about two hundred Children spinning, and in the Box in the middle of the Room sits the Grand Mistress with a long white Wand in her hand. If she observes any of them idle, she reaches them a tap; but if that will not do, she rings a Bell which by a little cord is fixed to the Box, and outcomes a Woman; she then points to the Offender, and she is taken away in another Room and chastised. And all that is done without a word of speaking. “ (Yarraton, 1677, p. 45)

The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. (l. c. , I. viii. 44)