The Workhouse System, 1834-1929
The History of an English Social Institution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3419972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet Roebuck, M A Crowther |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 674 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/203740 |
| OpenAlex | W2111036540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
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 – became institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term care. 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
Archaeology · Institution · Poorhouse · Social institution · Social science · Sociology · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
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The Loes and Wilford Poor Law Incorporation 1765–1826
Clothing the New Poor Law workhouse in the nineteenth century
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The poor and the life‐cycle in nineteenth‐century Florence, 1813–59
The historical geography of the workhouse system in England and Wales, 1834–1883
Material lives of the poor and their strategic use of the workhouse during the final decades of the English old poor law
Household and family structure in England and Wales (1851–1911)
Writing for redress
Great inhumanity’
Housing the ‘decayed members’ of the middle classes
Work for their prime, the workhouse for their age”
Diagnostic Spaces
Safe as Houses? Ageing in Place and Vulnerable Older People in the UK
Enterprise and Welfare States
New Estimates of British Unemployment, 1870–1913
Feeding in the Workhouse
The Pedagogy of Porter
Poor law policy, unemployment, and pauperism
Edwin Chadwick, "Mutton Medicine," and the Fever Question
The New Poor Law Guardians and the Administration of Insanity in East London, 1834-1844
"Stop This Overwhelming Torment of Destiny"
Local Government Health Services in Interwar England
The Social and Demographic Context of Child Labour
Bondage
Child Labour and the State
Slaveries and Emancipation
Establishing Distinctions
Leaving the Victorian Children's Institution
The First Lady Almoner
Masculinity, Social Mobility, and the Plan to End Pauperism in Mid-Victorian England
Strafen und ihre Alternativen
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788?1838
The Traveling Panopticon
Poverty and Illness in the ‘Old Countries’
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2021 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |