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1679 R. Haines Proposals for Promoting Woollen-manufactory 4 If instead of Houses of Debauchery, such Houses of Industry were erected.

1752 Old Eng. 7 Mar. About the middle of every District is to be built what is called a House of Industry, for the general Reception of all Poor belonging to the District.

1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 366 In the month of June, 1777, several years after the House of Industry has been built.

1835 J. Revans Evils State Ireland 98 The beggars of this parish would gladly enter a house of industry though it involved a temporary restriction on their personal liberty, provided they were allowed tobacco.

1855 E. Bennett Ellen Norbury 19 He is the founder of the Moyamensing House of Industry, where the suffering poor, who have neither home nor friends, are fed and cared for.

1944 Sci. & Society 8 295 It was a popular practice for old ladies of both sexes [sic] to set up ‘houses of industry’ where prostitutes, or ‘fallen women’, might learn respectable trades and thus be snatched from lives of sin.

1997 R. Albelda & C. Tilly Glass Ceilings & Bottomless Pits 89 Beginning in the 1700s, relief authorities often imposed work requirements, setting up workhouses or, in some cases, ‘houses of industry’ that provided private-sector jobs at rock-bottom wages.