This study focuses on the poor relief in Norra Råda parish in central Sweden, between the years of 1850 – 1905. The main questions of the study is: 1) What types of poor relief was practised? 2) What where the costs of poor relief, and how did they impact the economy of the Parish? 3) How, when and why where the decisions taken that led to the building of the poorhouse in Myra, Norra Råda? The aim is to contribute to better understanding of the poor relief in Norra Råda parish in the second half of the 19th century. The analysis is based on sources found in the Hagfors kommun town archive. The study combines a qualitative investigation of the source material with Abram de Swaans theories of collectivization processes and his criteria in the classification of poverty. The starting point for the study on the poor relief practices is that the costs starting point for the study on the poor relief practices is that the costs of poor relief for Norra Råda between 1850 and 1905 are the major expenses of the parish. The forms of poor relief practice in the Norra Råda parish are not unique and can be found in many other parts of Sweden during this time. They had also been practised for a for a long time. The study presents that the poor relief practices are resilient structures, that are not abandoned even in the face of sharply rising costs. Furthermore, the study looks into the reasons for the building of a large poorhouse in the parish in 1905.

Arbetets syfte är att undersöka hur de ogifta mödrarna i Gudmundrås socken mellan åren 1931-1936 behandlades jämfört med andra kvinnogrupper inom fattigvården, samt vilka ärenden de förekommer i. Det material som har använts har hämtats från fattigvårdens egna protokollsböcker, vilka går att finna i Kramfors kommunala arkiv. Resultatet tyder på att de ogifta mödrarna inom Gudmundrås socken ofta behandlades på ett annorlunda sätt jämfört med de övriga kvinnogrupper som finns representerade under denna tidsperiod mellan 1931-1936. I de ärenden som finns beskrivna mellan 1931-1936 kan man utläsa att de ogifta mödrarna är den kvinnogrupp som är störst jämfört med de övriga utsatta kvinnogrupperna. Deras bifallna ärenden tyder också på att de först och främst fick hjälp med mat åt barnet jämfört med de andra kvinnogrupperna.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera hur lagförändringarna rörande tvångsarbete och fattigdom i Sverige påverkade olika delar av landet under den första halvan av 1800-talet samt se på situationen gällande fattigvård. De undersökta regionerna är Norrbotten, Uppland och Malmöhus och de studerade lagarna är 1833 års legostadga samt 1847 års fattigvårdsförordning. Jämförelsen visar både att det finns stora likheter gällande de stora dragen i utvecklingen av fattigdom och fattigvård i de undersökta delarna av landet likväl som regionala skillnader. Undersökningen visar också en osynlighet gällande statistiken om fängslade på grund av lösdriveri, något som påståtts vara ett stort problem under perioden och frekvent debatterat. Tydligt i undersökningen blir också att kvinnan i högre grad drabbades av fattigdom, något som troligen är kopplat till bristen på rättigheter. Slutsatsen är att den synliga förändring som visas i min undersökning inte följer den utveckling som hade kunnat väntas i enlighet med 1833- och 1847 års lagförändringar.

<p>The aim of this study is to learn about the nineteenth century poor relief system, how itoperated in the rural parish Kristdala during the period 1881-1890, and not least, who was thesupported person? The poor are defined as the individuals that received public poor relief, but in onechapter this definition of poverty is contrasted with a definition based upon tax exemption:inability to pay taxes. Two villages have been selected for intensive study, namely Kroxhult and Calerum, and Calerum is the smaller one. The connection between age and the poverty ratio is clear, and tobe a lodger was especially disadvantageous with respect to poverty. Further the position ofwidow was the most unfavourable among the female poor people. In Kroxhult the singlepersons were often supported and here the most ordinary receiver of poor relief was a man.Probably the local government wanted to press down the expenses, but then the parishhas kept within the law. For payment some farmers took care of adults and children, but therewas a poor-house. It appears to me that sometimes women more easily got poor relief, and Ihave found that a person who was regarded to have a disordered lifestyle could be sent to aworkhouse.</p>

Denna uppsats handlar om fattigvården i Borgstena socken under 1854-1863 och syftar till att undersöka hur fattigvårdsorganisationen såg ut, vilka som bestämde i socken, vilka de fattiga var samt i vilken utsträckning vården svarade för gällande nationell fattigvårdsförordning. För att avhandla detta har källor i form av fattigvårdsstyrelseprotokoll, sockennämndprotokoll och husförhörslängder sammanställts och därefter kompletterats med hembygdsföreningen i Borgstenas framtagna sockenbok som gavs ut 2011. Med detta material har fattigvårdsstatistik samt aktörer och deras livsberättelser blivit till, och med hjälp av dessa har frågeställningen kunnat besvaras. Slutsatserna som uppsatsen utmynnat i är att de som satt i fattigvårdsstyrelsen var de som ägde sin gård och ibland hade unika ställningar i socken. Det fattiga karaktäriserades av kvinnor i högre grad än män, av torpare eller av före detta torpare och av individer främst från gruppen som var över 61 år. Fattigvårdsförordningen gav socken mandat att bestämma och det kan tolkas ske utan kontroll från högre organ då vissa händelser talar för att fattigvårdsstyrelsen tummade på reglerna.

The aim of this study is to learn about the nineteenth century poor relief system, how itoperated in the rural parish Kristdala during the period 1881-1890, and not least, who was thesupported person? The poor are defined as the individuals that received public poor relief, but in onechapter this definition of poverty is contrasted with a definition based upon tax exemption:inability to pay taxes. Two villages have been selected for intensive study, namely Kroxhult and Calerum, and Calerum is the smaller one. The connection between age and the poverty ratio is clear, and tobe a lodger was especially disadvantageous with respect to poverty. Further the position ofwidow was the most unfavourable among the female poor people. In Kroxhult the singlepersons were often supported and here the most ordinary receiver of poor relief was a man.Probably the local government wanted to press down the expenses, but then the parishhas kept within the law. For payment some farmers took care of adults and children, but therewas a poor-house. It appears to me that sometimes women more easily got poor relief, and Ihave found that a person who was regarded to have a disordered lifestyle could be sent to aworkhouse.

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Within the essay´s timeframe, Sweden had three years of starvation, large emigration to America and a new Poor Welfare Act. I have found out which groups were granted support and what help they received from the poor welfare in Falun, between the years 1867-1872. In order to receive society´s help, it was important to be the right kind of poor, and that is a working individual who tried his best to support himself and his family, with the exception of those affected by illness or injury. The neighborhood supervisors of the poor welfare reported the distress and needs of the individuals to the poor welfare board, which decided what support should be given. Among the beneficiaries’ women were in the majority over men, and the men who were granted support were all workers. However, there are only the answers to who was granted help, not who was denied, which does not show the actual need. Granted support increased every year within the essay´s timeframe, despite the poor welfare act saying that those who were able to work should not burden the poor welfare. Despite this, the city of Falun granted support to able-bodied individuals who, according to the Poor Welfare Act, had to support themselves

This study focuses on the poor regulation in year 1871 and 1918, in Sweden. By examining the regulation texts with help by Carol Bacchis method the study is easy to overview. With theories about gender, class and citizenship as the theoretical framework the study provides an analysis that the gender equality was poor and in booth class topics and the citizenship topics the equality and the love for the week and poor, subtle.             The empirical data illustrate that the law text speaks directly to the man, and thereby leaves the women out of the text, naming her only by the word ”wife” and once as women in the 1871 regulation. The gender equality was low and the man hade all the official power. The citizenship ideal was a hard working and sober man that took good care of himself hand his family. If the man did not succeed in this, his citizenship was not fulfilled. If you received money by the state as a poor subsidy, you lost your right to vote in national elections. This, and the fact that, if you hade family with money, they should take care of you instead of the state, by law, increased the class society.                      The synthesis argues that the thoughts about the less fortunate is not so very different, then as of today.

During the nineteenth century there was a series of reforms in the Swedish poor relief system. These changes laid the basis for the Swedish social policies implemented in today’s modern society. It is also during this period of time this paper has its focus. There were specific gender roles and citizenship ideals in the society and the aim of this paper is to illustrate how these roles and ideals took place in the poor relief system as well. This will be done by a comparative study of the poor relief organization in Karlstad and Kristinehamn in the county of Värmland. When the poor relief board had meetings they kept strict protocol of the discussions and those protocols are the subject of this qualitatively interpretive study.   In this paper the study is chronologically presented from the year 1871 to 1918. Previous research shows that there were strict roles and ideals in the society and in the poor relief system as well and the material of this study shows that it comprises these two cities also. This paper shows that gender-related discrimination in fact did exist within the poor relief. The poor relief did offer some chores to the poor people in exchange for care and these chores were gender-related as well. The conclusions of this paper are based on comparison with previous research and the theoretical basis presented in the study.