Poor Law Amendment
August 14, 1834
The Whig parliament overhauled English poor relief, abolishing outdoor assistance and funneling the destitute into workhouses designed to be worse than the worst-paid independent work. Conditions were calculated to deter. Dickens would set Oliver Twist in one within three years. The Victorian poor had a new, stony architecture to endure.
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Also in 1834 (3 other events on record)
- Emancipation in the British Empire · North America · Politics
- Zollverein Begins · Europe · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.