Fundamental Institution

Fundamental Institution

Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms

Birk, Megan

University of Illinois Press

04/2022

300

Mole

Inglês

9780252086458

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 The Founding of Community Institutions 15

2 Populations and Conditions 46

3 Farming for the County 74

4 Poor Farm Women 104

5 The Poor Farm and Mental Health Care 130

6 Old Age and Poor Farm Residency 154

7 Poor Farms and Health Care 175

8 Crisis and Transition 198

Epilogue 216

Appendix 221

Notes 223

Bibliography 259

Index 283
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Almshouse; disability; poverty; health care; progressives; agriculture; elderly; rural; shelter; relief; Rural ideal; English Poor Law; pauper; farm; eugenics; bastardy; workhouse; direct aid; outdoor relief; indoor relief; state board of charity; boarding out; pauper leasing; Transients; seasonal laborer; drunkenness; unmarried; institutional tourism; friendly visiting; worthy poor; charity; Patriarchy; cruelty; hired hands; punishment; wages; management; Domestic abuse; unwed mothers; servants; single women; widows; abandonment; household; farm wives; Insanity; feebleminded; asylum; mental illness; suicide