Here is a related article about life in a workhouse. So were workhouses the awful places described by Dickens? The origins of the workhouse go back to the Black Death but why did individuals enter a workhouse? The Poor Laws forced some husbands to sell their wives to reduce the cost to the authorities. The Deepwade Union Workhouse was built in 1836 two years after the Poor Law Amendment Act but what change did this statute bring? One of the tasks inmates were forced to do was “picking oakum” which involved unpicking a piece of rope into many corkscrew strands. If you want to find the answers to these questions and more related information, then select the following link:
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