The Victorian Workhouse

I have never heard of this term before. From first looks, it seems like a building where you work. After researching it on several websites, I now know what it is. It is a place where families that can not support themselves go there to work. At first, it seems nice that the government is helping with poor people's lives and nessicties, but after further research, the conditions turned to be horrifying. It even reminds me of concentration camps (not as bad though) after reading about the schedule. People are made to work in hard conditions for hours straight only resting for eating breaks. The workers work in many categories like chopping wood, mining, or in factories. From looking at their paychecks, it seems that they would have to stay forever. The Nazis did this too to people in their occupied countries. They forced them to work in bad conditions. However, at least the government is doing it for their own good instead of killing them off like the Jews. They are at least properly fed, which is maybe one of the few beneficial things about working in a work house. I do not Scrooge knows what actually goes on in a work house because he has not been in one before. He can not say for others if he has not been in one before.