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SUMMARY:The Poor Law\, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiednes
 s - Samantha Williams (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Martin Andersson
DESCRIPTION:The workhouse was at the heart of the reforms envisaged by the
  Poor Law Commissioners in 1834\, as was the concept of ‘ablebodiedness
 ’. Welfare policy had far-reaching consequences\, not just for those who
  were accommodated in the workhouse\, but also for those recipients reliev
 ed outdoors\, and to the wider working class and notions of manliness and 
 womanliness. This paper explores how the New Poor Law contributed to disco
 urses on the able body – and the disabled body – through a mixture of 
 sources\, from the Poor Law Report\, changing poor law policy\, the census
 \, workhouse records\, literature\, illustrations\, newspapers\, and socia
 l investigation.
LOCATION:History Faculty\, Room 6
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