Poverty in victorian england: Part II

"Poverty and Families in the Victorian Era"
"Poverty and Families in the Victorian Era." Hidden Lives. The Children's Society. 2015. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.
"Victorian Houses and Where Victorians Lived"
"Slums and Slumming in Victorian England" (VictorianWeb)
Victorian Poor Law of 1834 (National UK Archives)
"Rich and Poor Families" (BBC)

"Many workhouses were established following the Poor Law amendments of 1834, which stated that 'no able bodied person was to receive money or other help from Poor Law Authorities except in a workhouse'. This chart shows the kind of work that inmates were forced to carry out in workhouses around the country, including stone-breaking or oakum-picking - unravelling lengths of tarred rope, for use in calking the seams of battleships. For all this, the pauper received only an allowance of coarse bread; 4 pounds a week if he was married, plus 2 pounds for each child." -

"Workhouse Tasks" Image and accompanying text courtesy of British Library. To ZOOM IN for more detail, see the original digitized version at: http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/chart-listing-workhouse-tasks-in-1852 .