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- Workhouse abstract "In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "wee haue erected wthn our borough a workehouse to sett poore people to worke".The origins of the workhouse can be traced to the Poor Law Act of 1388, which attempted to address the labour shortages following the Black Death in England by restricting the movement of labourers, and ultimately led to the state becoming responsible for the support of the poor. But mass unemployment following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the introduction of new technology to replace agricultural workers in particular, and a series of bad harvests, meant that by the early 1830s the established system of poor relief was proving to be unsustainable. The New Poor Law of 1834 attempted to reverse the economic trend by discouraging the provision of relief to anyone who refused to enter a workhouse. Some Poor Law authorities hoped to run workhouses at a profit by utilising the free labour of their inmates, who generally lacked the skills or motivation to compete in the open market. Most were employed on tasks such as breaking stones, bone crushing to produce fertiliser, or picking oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike, perhaps the origin of the workhouse's nickname.Life in a workhouse was intended to be harsh, to deter the able-bodied poor and to ensure that only the truly destitute would apply. But in areas such as the provision of free medical care and education for children, neither of which was available to the poor in England living outside workhouses until the early 20th century, workhouse inmates were advantaged over the general population, a dilemma that the Poor Law authorities never managed to reconcile.As the 19th century wore on, workhouses increasingly became refuges for the elderly, infirm and sick rather than the able-bodied poor, and in 1929 legislation was passed to allow local authorities to take over workhouse infirmaries as municipal hospitals. Although workhouses were formally abolished by the same legislation in 1930, many continued under their new appellation of Public Assistance Institutions under the control of local authorities. It was not until the National Assistance Act of 1948 that the last vestiges of the Poor Law disappeared, and with them the workhouses.".
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- Workhouse wikiPageExternalLink An_Account_of_several_work-houses_for_employing_and_maintaining_the_poor.
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- Workhouse wikiPageExternalLink HighHallBainbridge1809-2007.
- Workhouse wikiPageExternalLink www.workhouses.org.uk.
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- Workhouse alt "Design".
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- Workhouse footer "Sampson Kempthorne's cruciform design for a workhouse accommodating 300 paupers".
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- Workhouse image "Sampson Kempthorne workhouse design for 300 paupers, plan view.jpg".
- Workhouse image "Sampson Kempthorne workhouse design for 300 paupers.jpg".
- Workhouse quote "First to the Poorhouse and then to the grave".
- Workhouse quote "From the Jewish point of view ... was the virtual impossibility of complying with the Jewish ritual requirements; the dietary laws could have been followed, if at all, only by virtual restriction to bread and water, and the observance of the Sabbath and Festivities was impossible.".
- Workhouse quote "Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top,".
- Workhouse quote "It is beyond the omnipotence of Parliament to meet the conflicting claims of justice to the community; severity to the idle and viscious and mercy to those stricken down into penury by the vicissitudes of God ... There is grinding want among the honest poor; there is starvation, squalor, misery beyond description, children lack food and mothers work their eyes dim and their bodies to emaciation in the vain attempt to find the bare necessities of life, but the Poor Law authorities have no record of these struggles.".
- Workhouse quote "When you grow old, your wages will stop,".
- Workhouse quote "When you have spent the little you made".
- Workhouse quoted "true".
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- Workhouse source "Anonymous verse from Yorkshire.".
- Workhouse source "Philanthropist William Rathbone, 1850".
- Workhouse width "150".
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- Workhouse subject Category:British_laws.
- Workhouse subject Category:English_laws.
- Workhouse subject Category:Law_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Workhouse subject Category:Poor_Law_in_Britain_and_Ireland.
- Workhouse subject Category:Poverty_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Workhouse subject Category:Workhouses.
- Workhouse comment "In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment.".
- Workhouse label "Arbeitshaus".
- Workhouse label "Workhouse".
- Workhouse label "Workhouse".
- Workhouse label "Workhouse".
- Workhouse label "Workhouse".
- Workhouse label "Работный дом".
- Workhouse label "济贫院".
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- Workhouse wasDerivedFrom Workhouse?oldid=605929374.
- Workhouse depiction Workhouse_Nantwich.jpg.
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