... of ignorance leading to unemployability, workhouse, asylum or prison. There system of control was simple, if you want anything from us, you have to work for it. They dealt with the poor by putting them into workhouses, if they were violent or insane they put them into asylums, and if they persisted they incarcerated or transported them to Australia. In this essay I looked at the general principles of the institutions and way of life in them. I make specific reference to the House of Correction (Wakefield Prison), The West Riding Asylum, Wakefield (the first in Yorkshire), at the Workhouse and schools in the Wakefield District. Why they invent compulsory education? As an initiative to get the massive population out of the poverty trap of, workhouse, asylum, prison. I hope to answer the question as to whether these institutions were effective in dealing with the problems faced in 19th Century Britain? In understanding ...

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