The Workhouse

The Workhouse
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780712606370
ISBN-13 : 0712606378
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Book Synopsis The Workhouse by : Norman Longmate

Download or read book The Workhouse written by Norman Longmate and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British workhouse is the stuff of literature and legend. But what exactly was it? Surprisingly, no full-scale history of the workhouse has ever been written. Here, historian Norman Longmate tells the full story, from its beginnings in Elizabethan times until its demise in the 1940s, though mainly concentrating on the Victorian workhouse in the years of its tarnished glory. He describes the circumstances in the 1830s that led to the opening of 600 new workhouses--an event that met with astonishingly little opposition among reformers. He also records the riots, the protests, and the pleadings with which the poor challenged their virtual enslavement, and the misery of their daily lives when they were finally incarcerated within the workhouse walls.


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