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- W3048196609 abstract "Our third chapter switches attention away from middle-class reformers and investigators to the crucial question of how far the poor had agency to participate in, inform and shape a workhouse reform movement. We show how the poor (residents and former residents of the workhouse) were able to write to the central authorities and to contest the treatment they received and the regimes to which they were subject. Developing this theme, we focus in particular on four extraordinary paupers who wrote multiple letters both on their own behalf and for others in the workhouses where they found themselves. These four men may have had their individual and personal issues with guardians and workhouse staff, but such concerns always developed into much wider manifestos and agendas for workhouse reform which show a remarkable symmetry with sentiments and concrete recommendations in the wider court of public opinion. Over tens of thousands of words to the central authorities, they raised similar points to Joseph Rowntree and, like him, they sought not to overthrow the workhouse system but to make it work as intended. Such men demonstrate remarkable agency and we show how they tried actively to shape, rather than merely reflect or respond to, a wider seam of public opinion from the 1860s that came to support workhouse reform." @default.
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- W3048196609 title "Pauper Letter Writers and the Workhouse Experience" @default.
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