workhouse

The proposal is hardly advocating for the return of the workhouse.

It actually dates back to religious attitudes in the 16th century, when the paupers in the workhouse were dismissed as sinners.

A jobs guarantee also puts us right back in the workhouse / make work mindset.

This is a Dickensian nightmare that kind of reminds me of the workhouse of old.

It may not be slavery but it sounds rather like a reinvention of the workhouse.

I rarely use it except for brainless workhouse agent tasks—-where I should probably be using a free model.

Even if she is not there, Amazon should not be allowed to operate an unsafe workhouse that puts its employees in danger.

Read about the Victorian workhouse, the Irish potato famine, and Rawanda in the 1990s.

The issue is whether Greece can get a bit of runway to let it deal with the corruption problems or whether it should just be confined to the modern equivalent of the workhouse.

Even if bankrupt people were put in the workhouse and given punishing physical labour, those kinds of people would still be financially irresponsible.

You remember in Oliver Twist, where child orphans not lucky enough to descend for a professional are put to work as pseudo slaves in a workhouse?

I think China is the workhouse and that's the source of it's power.

In contrast to "democratic" Britain, where Wellington's legacy was the poor law and the workhouse.

So, a woman who stole something might be pardoned, sent to the workhouse, or "transported"-- that is, sent overseas.