By 1850 a succession of Lunacy Acts and Asylum Acts had compelled local authorities to provide county lunatic asylums for insane paupers, and imposed a legal obligation on Poor Law Guardians to seek out their insane and to see that provision was made for them. The Poor Law of 1834 ushered in the regime of the workhouse, imposing an institutional solution to replace a variety of local methods of poor relief. promoting the adoption of the ?total institution? by local authorities throughout Britain. Legislation by central government was important in. A central feature of the new approach was the removal of deviant and socially dependent people from society at large, and their segregation in total institutions, where specific treatments for specific groups could be applied.
The 19th century witnessed the fruition of fundamental changes in the treatment of social deviance and dependency.
Focusing on how mnemonic labour creates lasting mnemonic capital reveals the gendered dimensions of memory which are critical for ongoing memory work. This local struggle is representative of a global economic system of gendered institutionalized violence and forgetting, The analysis shows how the mnemonic labour of women survivors accumulates as mnemonic value that is then transformed into institutional mnemonic capital. The Burramattagal People of Darug Clan are the Traditional Owners of the land and the site is of practical and spiritual importance to indigenous women. The site in Parramatta, which dates from the 1820s, was a female factory for transported convicts, a female prison, an asylum for women and girls, an orphanage and then Parramatta Girls Home. The campaigns have worked to recognize the memory and history of the longest continuous site of female containment in Australia built to support the British invasion.
The article then applies the concepts of mnemonic labour and mnemonic capital in more detail through a case study of memory activism examining the work of the Parragirls and the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project (PFFP) in Sydney, Australia. economic analysis of memory that can reveal the dimensions of mnemonic transformation, accumulation and exchange through gendered mnemonic labour, gendered mnemonic value and gendered mnemonic capital. It models the conceptual basis for the consideration of a feminist. This article addresses that gap, arguing that the global economy matters in understanding the gender of memory and memories of gender. Within feminist memory studies the economy has largely been overlooked, despite the fact that the economic analysis of culture and society has long featured in research on women and gender.
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