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Everyday life inside a Victorian workhouse
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Families were deliberately separated, fed gruel, and forced to break rocks just to earn a bed in the brutal Victorian workhouse system. The government intentionally made these places miserable to punish poverty, viewing destitution as a moral failure rather than an economic one. Looking back reveals how incredibly far our basic social safety nets have come.
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