1st Edition
The Workhouse System 1834-1929 The History of an English Social Institution
By M. A. Crowther
Copyright 1981
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings – housing all paupers under one roof –... Read more
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A Note on Terminology; Introduction; Part One: Administrators; 1. From the Old Poor Law to the New 2. The Coming of the Bastiles 3. From Workhouse to Institution 4. The Twentieth-Century Workhouse 5. Officers 1834-1870 6. Officers 1870-1929 7. The Medical Staff and the Infirmaries; Part Two: Inmates; 8. Workhouse Discipline and the Total Institution 9. The Workhouse and the Community 10. The Casual Poor; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Biography
M. A. Crowther
