Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Historic Environment: Whitechapel.
The punishing physical labour of unravelling old, tarred ship ropes into individual fibres, often performed in workhouses.
Oakum picking appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Historic Environment: Whitechapel and Crime, Policing and the Inner City in Whitechapel.
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