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Workhouse - Wikipedia
a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment.
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Workhouse Arts Center
The Workhouse Arts Center is an innovative collaboration of the arts in Fairfax County, Virginia that offers art galleries, classes, theater and music ...
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The Victorian Workhouse - Historic UK
The Victorian Workhouse was an institution that was intended to provide work and shelter for poverty stricken people who had no means to ...
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workhouse (ˈwɜːkhaʊs) [OE. weorch{uacu}s: f. work n. + house n.1 Cf. MDu. werchuus, Du. werkhuis, MHG. werchûs (G. werkhaus), ON. verkh{uacu}s (in comb.).] 1. a. A house, shop, or room in which work is regularly performed; a workshop or factory. Obs. or Hist.a 1100 in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 185/3 Officina...
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WORKHOUSE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. British : poorhouse 2. a house of correction for persons guilty of minor law violations Examples of workhouse in a Sentence
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Workhouse | Poor relief, Pauperism, Poor Law | Britannica
Workhouse, institution to provide employment for paupers and sustenance for the infirm, found in England from the 17th through the 19th century.
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The Workhouse Bend: Bend, Oregon Local Handmade Gifts & Art ...
The Workhouse features handmade goods from over 60 local makers, artisans, and artists in Oregon. Our selection of goods is curated to feed your body, heart, ...
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Workhouse - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The workhouse was a place which offered housing and work to people who did not have any. They began in England and Wales during the 17th century.
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How bad were workhouses really? : r/AskHistorians - Reddit
I remember being taught back in school that workhouses (particularly Victorian ones) were effectively a way of enslaving the poorest people ...
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Workhouse inmates and staff - The National Archives
This is a brief guide to help you with your research into the people employed or staying in workhouses after 1834. More information on central government ...
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workhouse
workhouse(Brit) (formerly 旧时) public institution where very poor people were sent to live and given work to do 济贫院.
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The Workhouse, Southwell
Becher, a pioneer of workhouse and prison reform involving daily tasks of hard labour by breaking stones and recycling of oakum. It is described by the National Trust as the best-preserved workhouse in England.
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Poor Law | Workhouse, Pauperism & Relief | Britannica
Poor Law, in British history, body of laws undertaking to provide relief for the poor, developed in 16th-century England and maintained, with various changes, until after World War II.The Elizabethan Poor Laws, as codified in 1597-98, were administered through parish overseers, who provided relief for the aged, sick, and infant poor, as well as work for the able-bodied in workhouses.
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Workhouse Hill
Workhouse Hill is a hamlet in the Colchester district, in the English county of Essex.
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Essex A-Z 2010. p. 159.
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Clerkenwell Workhouse
The Clerkenwell Workhouse stood on Coppice Row, Farringdon Road, in London. The original workhouse was built in 1727 but that building was replaced by one twice as large in 1790.
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