Workhouses

Starkweather. “Some human boy they found and trained up. Shade taught him his unholy tinkering ways. Won his trust.” “It’s unlikely the Shades stole Mortmain from his parents,” said Charlotte. “He was 629/1090 probably a boy who would have died in a workhouse otherwise.” “It was unnatural. Warlocks should not have human children to raise.” Aloysius stared deep within the red embers of the fire. “That is why we raided Shade’s house. We killed him and his wife. The boy escaped.…

wildlife to a residential area. Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) was given the nickname “rock breaker” for his ability to overcome difficulties, and it was a name he certainly earned. An illegitimate child, Stanley spent part of his young life in a workhouse in Wales, the country of his birth, where he was routinely mistreated. At the age of 15, he ran away to America where a kindly merchant adopted him and turned his life in a new direction. Stanley served as a soldier in the…

proletários, que, tendo apenas sua força de trabalho para vender, “são coagidos pela força a se vender voluntariamente”! 2212 Marx não entendia isso apenas como uma forma retórica ou metafórica. Basta lembrar as descrições pavorosas dos ‘workhouses’, na Inglaterra; 2213 ‘hôpitaux de charité’, na França, quando as legislações paralelas nos diversos países europeus promoveram o que Foucault chamou de ‘Grand Enfermement’. Tais medidas drásticas, apoiadas no poder…