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Pretty freakin' terrible. You can get an idea of life in the workhouse from reading "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens or "street child". Basically the workhouses sprang from the Malthusian and utilitarian schools of thought, which boils down to the idea that the poor should (a) not be allowed to reproduce and (b) be kept in the most miserable conditions to encourage them to work their way out of it. Families were separated; men, women, and children lived in separate wings. The living conditions were disgusting.

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