The fundamental institution : poverty, social welfare, and agriculture in American poor farms /

The fundamental institution : poverty, social welfare, and agriculture in American poor farms /

"By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at p...

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Author / Creator: Birk, Megan, 1979- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1865-1932
Agriculture > Social aspects > United States.
Almshouses > United States > History.
Rural poor > Government policy > United States.
Rural poor > United States > Social conditions.
Agriculture > Social aspects
Almshouses
Rural conditions
Rural poor > Government policy
Rural poor > Social conditions
Social conditions
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Society.
United States > Rural conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932.
United States
History
Online Access:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
Table of Contents:
  • The founding of community institutions
  • Populations and conditions
  • Farming for the county
  • Poor farm women
  • The poor farm and mental health care
  • Old age and poor farm residency
  • Poor farms and health care
  • Crisis and transition.

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