First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of
the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the
Local Government Act of 1929. At their outset the large residential
institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for
nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal,
prison-like buildings - housing all paupers under one roof - became
institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in
itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses
became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many
continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term
care. Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but
also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the
workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but
a forerunner of many of today's social institutions.
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