State workhouses for women: Punishment or refuge?

Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were the women who were sent there? Leiden University Ph.D. candidate Marian Weevers has investigated.

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