The Illinois Poor Law and Its Administration
Author: Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 566
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Author: Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 566
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elinor Nims
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harley Raymond Teel
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Published: 1933
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Wagner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005-01-17
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1461645204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany 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. Surprisingly these institutions variously named poorhouses, poor farms, sometimes almshouses or workhouses, have received rather scant academic treatment, as well, though tens of millions of poor people were confined there, while often their neighbors talked in hushed tones and in fear of their own fate at the 'specter of the poorhouse.' Based on the author's study of six New England poorhouses/poor farms, a hidden story in America's history is presented which will be of popular interest as well as useful as a text in social welfare and social history. While the poorhouse's mission was character reform and 'repressing pauperism,' these goals were gradually undermined by poor people themselves, who often learned to use the poorhouse for their own benefit, as well as by staff and officials of the houses, who had agendas sometimes at odds with the purposes for which the poorhouse was invented.
Author: Joan Gittens
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780252064111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive history traces the care of dependent, delinquent, and disabled children in Illinois from the early nineteenth century to current times, focusing on the dilemmas raised by both public intervention and the lack of it. Joan Gittens explores the inadequacies of a system that has allowed problems in the public care of children to recur regularly but at the same time insists that the state's own history makes it clear that the potential for improvements exists.
Author: Edmund William Hollond
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Total Pages: 513
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Hayward Milchrist
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Hamlett Bremner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 870
ISBN-13: 9780674116108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, the first of three volumes that will provide the most complete documentary history of public provision for American children, traces the changing attitudes of the nation toward youth during the first two and one half centuries of its history.
Author: Illinois. Public Assistance Laws Commission
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 148
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 116
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