Workhouses

Un Workhouse, était un lieu qui accueillait au Royaume-Uni les personnes incapables de subvenir seules à leur besoin. Ils pouvaient y vivre en échange de leur travail.

Ces foyers furent officiellement crées en 1834, par le Poor Law Amendment Act, mais existaient déjà depuis la old poor law de 1601.

A workhouse was a place where people who were unable to support themselves could go to live and work. The Oxford Dictionary's earliest reference to a workhouse dates to 1652 in Exeter. There is, however, some written evidence that workhouses existed before this date. Records mention a workhouse in 1631 in Abingdon. The vagrants' and casual workers' ward of a workhouse was colloquially known as a spike, from the tool used to unpick oakum.

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