Workhouse
In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "wee haue erected wthn our borough a workehouse to sett poore people to worke".
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Workhouse
In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "wee haue erected wthn our borough a workehouse to sett poore people to worke".
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Das Arbeitshaus stellte eines ...... aftlich durchsetzen zu helfen.
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Een werkhuis was in Nederland ...... wezen op verzoek van de voogd.
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En la historia británica, una ...... khouse en Abingdon hacia 1631.
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In England and Wales a workhou ...... and with them the workhouses.
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Les workhouses (littéralement, ...... minded), les fille-mères, etc.
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Na história britânica, uma wor ...... de Cheshire tinha 31 em 1777.
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Работный (рабочий) дом (англ. ...... , мелких преступников и нищих.
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ワークハウス(英語: Workhouse)は救貧院の一種で、 ...... いた。これがワークハウスの別名の由来になったと言われている。
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济贫院（workhouse）又称救济院、救贫院、贫民院、濟貧 ...... 国范围只有三间大的济贫院，而1777年单英国柴郡就有31间。
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Sampson Kempthorne's cruciform design for a workhouse accommodating 300 paupers
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First to the Poorhouse and then to the grave
From the Jewish point of view ...... nd Festivities was impossible.
Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top,
It is beyond the omnipotence o ...... no record of these struggles.
When you grow old, your wages will stop,
When you have spent the little you made
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Anonymous verse from Yorkshire.
Philanthropist William Rathbone, 1850
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Das Arbeitshaus stellte eines ...... te dann das Arbeitshaus im 19.
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Een werkhuis was in Nederland ...... wezen op verzoek van de voogd.
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En la historia británica, una ...... khouse en Abingdon hacia 1631.
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In England and Wales a workhou ...... o sett poore people to worke".
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Les workhouses (littéralement, ...... minded), les fille-mères, etc.
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Na história britânica, uma wor ...... em Abingdon por volta de 1631.
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Работный (рабочий) дом (англ. ...... , мелких преступников и нищих.
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ワークハウス(英語: Workhouse)は救貧院の一種で、 ...... いた。これがワークハウスの別名の由来になったと言われている。
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济贫院（workhouse）又称救济院、救贫院、贫民院、濟貧 ...... 国范围只有三间大的济贫院，而1777年单英国柴郡就有31间。
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Arbeitshaus
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Werkhuis
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Workhouse
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Workhouse
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Workhouse
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Workhouse
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Работный дом
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救貧院 (ワークハウス)
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济贫院
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