Four spectres haunt the pooröold age, accident, sickness, and unemployment.We are going to exorcise them.We are going to drive hunger from the hearth.We meantobanishtheworkhousefromthehorizonofevery workman in the land.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech, Reading,1  Jan.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists:Women in the Home'.

Alone until she dies,Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Under MilkWood.