| However, the workhouses were barely self-financing and they were criticised by neighbouring companies who saw them as unfair competition. |
| Until you hear a politician on Newsnight promising to bring back workhouses and debtors' gaols, be sure that we are staring ruin in the face. |
| Many agencies had arrangements with orphanages and workhouses or ran their own homes in the old country. |
| Overnight accommodation varied, from the the casual wards of local workhouses to more friendly lodgings and municipally-arranged feasts. |
| In other parts of Sweden, like Norrbotten, there were workhouses which poor children attended, earning their keep by doing most of the daily domestic work. |
| Henry Ford built workhouses for poorer employees in Brightmoor, on the city's western edge. |
