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THE RICH AND THE POOR. Workhouses Industrial Revolution Charles Dickens Benjamin Disraeli -The 1834 poor law. WORKHOUSES. the grim world of Oliver Twist…. WHAT WAS A WORKHOUSE?. Workhouse Schools . Inside the Workhouse . Industrial Revolution. From Country to Town. Charles Dickens.
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THE 1834 POOR LAW Hubert von Herkomer, Westminster Union, The Graphic (7th April, 1877)
Thomas Carlyle « The New Poor Law is an announcement ... that whosoever will not work ought not to live. Can the poor man that is willing to work always find work and live by his work? A man willing but unable to find work is ... the saddest thing under the sun. »