Poor people did not all go to the work house.... it would depend on the circumstances, and whether there was a work house near by..so no year,,
the rich people can move a house and the government will then provide the rich a new house and the poor people can leave in the rich peoples old house Nice work eh??
People who could not support themselves went to work houses for accommodation and employment. Work houses began in 1388 with the Poor Law Act.
A workhouse was a penal establishment where petty criminals and often children were sent to perform minor jobs as a punishment. **************************************** Anyone who fell on hardtimes, had become poor, and was considered to be a burden on the Parish, could find themselves in the Work House. The poor did not need to be a criminal, and the work house was seen as the last hope before be coming a vagrant and starving.
Those who could not support themselves.
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To be thrown in prison, taken to the work house or die and reduce the surplus population
I looked this up and the earliest reference I could find for the "poor house" was in the 1800's and this well past the middle ages. They were also called poor farms and I found out that people were auctioned off to another person for a year or so to work for the person in exchange for rent. Again, though, this was in the 1800's. So, if you were poor ( most people were very poor in the middle ages) there was no place for you to go to. To have a "poor house" there has to be social services and a thinking that people need to be helped in someway. The society of the middle ages was feudal which meant that 90% of the people were peasant or serf and had to work for a place to live.
In the Tudor times, there were many poor people on the streets. The government decided to put them into 2 groups, the deserving and the idle. the deserving poor were the poor people who couldn't work through no fault of their own. For example, orphans widowers with lots of children, sick and ill and so on. However the idle poor are the poor who refused to work because of laziness. They were fit to work but spent time in the streets begging instead of finding a job. These people were whipped until bloody and were punished. Orphans in the deserving poor might have been sent to traders to learn how to trade. By fearne hope this hepled!!!!
A zhiqing is a group consisting of the "educated youth" - young Chinese people sent from urban areas to work in poor villages during the Down to the Countryside Movement.
That that time people who were poor were seen as criminals . Work houses were establishements allowed the poor to live in really terrible conditions, access lowely medical care and have to work for their lodging and food. These were not pleaseant places at all. As stated in the story many would rather die than go to the work house.
Jermey Needs to get to work
200 people work in the White House today