The workhouse test and less eligibility

Question 1

Workhouse intended to be

Answer 1

last refuge for the destitute, intended that principle of less eligibility (combined with deterrent conditions from workhouse test) would be self-regulating

Question 2

BUT conditions in workhouses could not

Answer 2

be made deliberately worse than the poorest labourer living outside

Question 3

Poor Law Commission attempted

Answer 3

to make workhouses repellent by insetting on monotonous routine and strict discipline - building workhouses that looked like prisons and trying to dehumanise paupers by removing them from their identities

Question 4

Regardless of intentions of Poor Law Reformers

Answer 4

outdoor relief was still most common form of relief