Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
People who were fit to work but unable to find employment due to economic conditions like the cloth trade collapse.
Able-bodied poor appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Elizabethan Society and Exploration and The Problem of the Poor.
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