The workhouse : a social history
Longmate, Norman, 1925-2006
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From its beginnings during Elizabethan times to its final demise in the 1940s the 'Workhouse' had been the scourge of the poor working classes of Britain and a feared social institution of powerful control. Norman Longmate's study focuses mainly upon the shamefulness of Victorian workhouse enslavement.
Main title:
The workhouse : a social history / Norman Longmate ; with a new foreword by the author.
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Imprint:
London : Pimlico, 2003.
Collation:
xii, 318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: London: Temple Smith, 1974.Originally published: London: Temple Smith, 1974.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780712606370 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.569094109034362.5
Language:
English
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BRN:
72538