Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
Also known as the 'idle poor', these were people physically fit to work but seen as lazy or criminal for not doing so.
Undeserving 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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