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The Workhouse System 1834-1929: The History of an English Social Institution

The Workhouse System 1834-1929: The History of an English Social Institution

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World

General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1138647438
ISBN13: 9781138647435
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 8 2016
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929. Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but a forerunner of many of today's social institutions.

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