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Warpy

(111,250 posts)
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 10:40 AM Mar 2016

WHEN POVERTY WAS A CRIME

This is long, but it's an even handed examination of the English workhouse system, its punitive as well as its progressive nature. S

It's exactly where the moralists want to take this country, poverty seen as a moral failure as well as contagious disease.

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