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If you were a child raised in an industrial revolution era workhouse (like Oliver Twist)... what was actually likely to happen to you if you survived to adulthood? Would you have a shot at a decent life or was this system virtually a sentence to life-long slavery?

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If you were a child raised in an industrial revolution era workhouse (like Oliver Twist)... what was actually likely to happen to you if you survived to adulthood? Would you have a shot at a decent life or was this system virtually a sentence to life-long slavery?	2872