A methodological and philosophical focus on scandals has turned the workhouse that stands at the heart of popular and historiographical understandings of the English and Welsh New Poor Law (1834–1929) into a dark place of confinement and harsh treatment that the poor were largely powerless to resist. Yet viewed through the lens of interdisciplinary methods not often applied to the history of welfare—in particular, historical sociolinguistics and material-culture analysis—the pauper letters and “stitched” texts that have emerged from large-scale research projects reveal that inmates’ experience in the workhouse were not as dire, and their voices not as suppressed, as once supposed.

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愤怒的碎片？1890到1900年代大雅茅斯工作室的Lunacy，代理机构和竞赛

对丑闻的方法学和哲学关注使处于英国和威尔士新贫困法（1834年至1929年）的流行和历史学理解核心的工作室变成了一个封闭和严厉对待的黑暗地方，穷人基本上无能为力。抗。然而，从跨学科方法的角度来看，这种方法通常不适用于福利历史，尤其是历史社会语言学和物质文化分析，但大型研究项目中出现的贫乏字母和“经缝合”文本表明，囚犯的经历在车间里，他们不像以前想象的那样可怕，声音也不那么压抑。