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ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Poor Farm
Author: Ronan O'DriscollPublisher:
ISBN: 9781777293789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Ronan O'Driscoll's novel follows two people on the autism spectrum--one the child of the narrator, and the other a boy confined to a Poor Farm in Nova Scotia in the 19th century. The tale explores the attitudes and assumptions that contorted and contort the way we deal with neurodivergent people, and take us into the Dickensian grimness of Victorian-era poor houses and official policies for "dealing with" the poor and the weak.
Bulletin
Author: Delivering Aid
Author: Thomas A. KrainzPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826330253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Delivering Aid examines local welfare practices, policies, and debates during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a diverse collection of western communities including Protestant cash-crop homesteaders, Catholic Hispanic subsistence farmers, miners in a dying mining center, residents in a dominant regional city, Native Americans on an Indian reservation, and farmers and workers in a stable mixed economy. Krainz investigates how communities used poor relief, mothers' pensions, blind benefits, county hospitals, and poor farms, as well as explains the roles that private charities played in sustaining needy residents. Delivering Aid challenges existing historical interpretations of the development of America's welfare state. Most scholars argue that the Progressive Era was a major transformation in welfare practices due to new theories about poverty and charity. Yet drawing on evidence from local county pauper books, Krainz concludes that by focusing on implementation welfare practices show little change. Still, assistance varied widely since local conditions--settlement patterns, economic conditions, environmental factors, religious practices, existing relief policies, and decisions by local residents--shaped each community's welfare strategies and were far more important in determining relief practices than were new ideas concerning poverty.
Paupers in Almshouses 1910
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Enumerates the numbers of paupers in almshouses on Jan 1, 1910 and admitted during 1910; the color, sex, age, nativity, and other personal characteristics, and the numbers who left almshouses by death discharge, or transfer. Contains data for the U.S., census regions, states, and individual institutions.
Before the New Deal
Author: Elna C. GreenPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820320915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Civil War and Reconstruction changed the face of social welfare provision in the South as thousands of people received public assistance for the first time in their lives. This book examines the history of southern social welfare institutions and policies in those formative years. Ten original essays explore the local nature of welfare and the limited role of the state prior to the New Deal. The contributors consider such factors as southern distinctiveness, the impact of gender on policy and practice, and ways in which welfare practices reinforced social hierarchies. By examining the role of the South’s unique political economy, the impact of racism on social institutions, and the region’s experience of war, this book makes it clear that the South’s social welfare story is no mere carbon copy of the nation’s.
The Poorhouse
Author: David WagnerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742529458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Exploring the history of the 'inmates' as well as staff and officials in New England, this book connects contemporary times to the 'poorhouse' history as the homeless shelter, jail, prison, and other institutions again hold millions of poor people under institutional care, sometimes in the very same structures that were poorhouses.
The Vermont Encyclopedia
Author: John J. DuffyPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The definitive sourcebook for Vermont facts, figures, people, events, and history
Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mortality
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Fostering on the Farm
Author: Megan BirkPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. The farmers received free labor in return for providing room and board. Reformers, meanwhile, believed children learned lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that institutions simply could not provide. Drawing on institution records, correspondence from children and placement families, and state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system developed--and how the children involved may have become some of America's last indentured laborers. Between 1850 and 1900, up to one-third of farm homes contained children from outside the family. Birk reveals how the nostalgia attached to misplaced perceptions about healthy, family-based labor masked the realities of abuse, overwork, and loveless upbringings endemic in the system. She also considers how rural people cared for their own children while being bombarded with dependents from elsewhere. Finally, Birk traces how the ills associated with rural placement eventually forced reformers to transition to a system of paid foster care, adoptions, and family preservation.
Administrative Report of the Directors of Departments Under the Civil Administrative Code Together with the Adjutant General's Report ...
Author: IllinoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Vols. for 1917/18- contain reports of the following departments: Dept. of Finance, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Labor, Dept. of Mines and Minerals, Dept. of Public Works and Buildings, Dept. of Public Welfare, Dept. of Public Health, Dept. of Trade and Commerce, Dept. of Registration and Education, Military nd Naval Dept.