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What were the effects of the enclosures on the poor in England?
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The effects of the enclosures on the poor were as given below:
(i) The poor could no longer collect their firewood from the forests or graze the cattle on the commons.
(ii) The could no longer collect apples and berries or hunt small animals for meat.
(iii) They could not gather the stalks that lay on the fields after the crops were cut. Everything belonged to the landlords. Everything had a price which the poor could not afford to pay.
(iv) In Midlands and counties around it, enclosures came into existence on an extensive scale. The poor were displaced from the land. Deprived of their right and driven off the land, they tramped in search of work. From the Midlands. they moved to the Southern counties of England but nowhere could the poor find secure jobs.
(v) Wages of the labourers were reduced. They were employed only during harvest time. Work became insecure, employment uncertain and income unstable. For a very large part of the year, the poor had no work.