Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Historic Environment: Whitechapel.
A public institution that housed the destitute in exchange for hard labour, governed by strict rules to act as a deterrent.
Workhouse 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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