{"product_id":"southwell-workhouse-alana-sanchez-9798242032620","title":"Southwell Workhouse: 1840-1849","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1840s, the workhouse was the centre of Britain's response to poverty. This book tells the story of one such institution - \u003cb\u003eSouthwell Workhouse\u003c\/b\u003e - during a single Victorian decade, when the New Poor Law was working exactly as intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased entirely on contemporary records, this is not a novel and not a work of fiction. It reconstructs daily life inside the workhouse through its own rules, registers, and reports: admission, classification, routine, labour, diet, punishment, illness, authority, and exit. Families were separated, work was enforced, hunger was regulated, and decline was recorded without comment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthwell was not exceptional. It was ordinary. That is what makes it significant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows how poverty was managed, not alleviated - through discipline, economy, and endurance - and how suffering could be produced without cruelty, simply by a system doing what it was designed to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA factual, unsparing account of Victorian poverty, told without invention, apology, or sentiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alana Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798242032620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.13d","brand":"Alana Sanchez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997339201791,"sku":"9798242032620","price":11.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/southwell-workhouse-alana-sanchez-9798242032620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}