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Were people forced to work in workhouses?
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Why was workhouses feared by people?
The people were treated poorly at workhouses.
Why were workhouses needed?
because it was hoped that it would get rid of poverty and people living on the street.
Did the Victorians care about people in the workhouses?
some did
How much did people get paid in workhouses?
not much
Are there no......asked Scrooge?
Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? And the treadmill is that still employed.
Why were there Victorian workhouses?
In a Victorian work house children, adults and elderly went to work in a workhouse if they were poor or badly ill. If they broke the rules then they would be put in a cage in a dark room, fined of even put into prison!
What is like in a workhouse?
workhouses were ment to be harsh so people didn't want help from them. The workhouses were ment for people who were sick,poor,orphans,etc.
What was a workhouses?
for laundry work picking oakim and making mail bags
Why does Scrooge think workhouses are adequate?
At the time it was a offence to be poor. Many people who had money thought that the "workhouse" was simple institution where people went if they were homeless would give the people bed and a meal in exchange for work. That was far from the truth. Workhouses were in fact inhuman places where the people were treated like slaves, they ate poor dietary foods and were made to do labour that at best was mundane and brutal. Scrooge believed that if people didnt want to look for work (which at the time over 90% of British people were out of work and child labour was taking all the provider roles) they should be sent to the workhouse as a punishment. The statement about workhouses comes back to haunt Scrooge when he is faced by the children; Want and Ignorance who are revealed from beneath the robes of The Ghost of Christmas Present.
Why were the conditions made so harsh in the workhouse?
workhouses was were poor people who had no job or home lived. there was also orphans, mental people and elderly people. the people who lived and worked there were made to work hard. the food in workhouses were disguting and was always the same. sometimes, children were sold to work in factories or mines.
Who lived and worked in a work house in Victorian times?
Workhouses were where poor people who had no job or home lived. They earned their keep by doing jobs in the workhouse. Also in the workhouses were orphaned (children without parents) and abandoned children, the physically and mentally sick, the disabled, the elderly and unmarried mothers.
