Poorhouse : America's Forgotten Institution
by
David Wagner
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0742529452
ISBN-13
9780742529458
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 17th, 2005
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
306 grams
Dimensions
23.20 x 15.50 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Poverty and precarityPoverty & unemployment
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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.
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