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Description: | This pamphlet was written to raise awareness of conditions at the Belmont Industrial Training Colony in Surrey run by the London County Council (LCC). Following the Local Government Act (1929), which had abolished the Poor Law System of workhouses and Boards of Guardians, the LCC had recently become responsible for administering relief to the poor. The Belmont Colony was set up to train the long-term unemployed. However, the pamphlet alleges that the colony had become in effect, a combination of a prison and a workhouse. It criticises the failure of the Labour Party, which had recently taken over the LCC, to improve conditions. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Unknown Copyright | Subjects: | Public services Power and Politics Home and Family | Temporal: | c1934 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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