1. INTRODUCTION
• Economy is the science that related
the shortage with the unlimited needs.
• Adam Smith “Society can’t be
developed and happy if the majority of
the people live in poverty and misery”.
2. POVERTY CONCEPT
Absolute poverty: refers to the deprivation of basic human needs, which
poverty
commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and
education .
Relative poverty: is defined contextually as economic inequality in the
poverty
location or society in which people live. Usually, relative poverty is measured
as the percentage of population with less incomes than some fixed proportion
of median income.
However, these concepts were unknown in the
18th Century. Poor people was only those who
were begging in the street.
3. The 16th Century
Poor people was the “vicarius Christi” but
Humanist introduced these concepts of
poverty:
• True poverty people who can not live by
their own ways.
• Fake poverty people who can work but
they don’t want to.
• Embarrassed poverty people who don’t
want that other people know they are poor.
4. Solutions to poverty in
the sixteenth century.
• Make lists of poor people
• Establish “poverty licenses”
• Lock up beggars in
Hospitals
• In the city of Oviedo, this
modern conception of
poverty brought about the
creation of “paneras” for the
poor people
5. The 18th Century
Enlightenment ideas:
- Welfare State versus private charity
- Humanist kinds of poverty
- State deal only with true poverty
- Public institutions: aid to poor people and
encourage professional education
6. Institutions
• Foundling homes
• Hospital
• Homes of Mercy
• Hospices
7. Asturias at the 18th Century
• The population of Asturias increased 25,86%
between 1752 and 1797.
• It is estimated that Agriculture occupied
71,5% of Asturian population in 1797
• They suffered poor harvests every little time.
• Data placed Asturias income per- capita as
the lowest in Spain in the year 1799 (269
reales).
8. Bibliography
• “Municipalismo y pobreza en la Asturias del siglo XVI” José Manuel Fernández Álvarez
• “La asistencia social y la beneficencia pública en la Asturias ilustrada: el Real Hospicio de
Oviedo” . En Historia de Asturias. Edad Moderna. KRK, 2005. José Manuel Fernández Álvarez.
• “Poderosos y humildes: una sociedad polarizada”. Ángeles Faya Díaz. En línea,
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/vscripts/w_bcc1812/w/rec/4060.pdf
• “Pobreza y marginación social en la España moderna” Ángel Rodríguez Sánchez. En línea,
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/69106.pdf
• “Pobres, mendigos y vagabundos en la Nueva España, 1702- 1766: antecedentes y
soluciones presentadas” Norman F. Martin. En línea,
http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/ehn/ehn08/EHN00805.pdf
• “Evaluación de las condiciones de vida de la población pobre en España” José Luis Calvo
González. En línea,
http://www.seg-social.es/prdi00/groups/public/documents/binario/115795.pdf
• “La organización de los servicios sociales asistenciales en el Madrid de Carlos III” Eva
Cañón Loyes. En línea,
http://www.madrid.es/UnidadWeb/Contenidos/Publicaciones/TemaServiciosSociales/OrganizacionSe
• “Introducción a los Servicios Sociales. Tema 6: La acción social en el mundo moderno y la
sociedad industrial”. En línea, http://www4.ujaen.es/~aespadas/TEMA6.pdf
• “Los orígenes de la intervención estatal en los problemas sociales” Manuel Herrera Gómez.
En línea, http://www.fundaciononce.es/SiteCollectionDocuments/Publicaciones/Los%20Or
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