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| 1 | Poorhouse, almshouse, poor farm : buried American history | 1 |
| 2 | Scenes from the poorhouse | 19 |
| 3 | What the forefathers had in mind : the purpose and contradictions of the poorhouse | 39 |
| 4 | Undermining the poorhouse : long- and short-term inmates in the late nineteenth century | 59 |
| 5 | Inmates, overseers, and the politics of the poorhouse | 81 |
| 6 | The long end : inmates in the twentieth-century poorhouse | 99 |
| 7 | Matrons, doctors, staff, and the end of the poorhouse | 119 |
| 8 | The ironies of history : the return of the poorhouse | 131 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Steven Shum
reviewed The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution on January 06, 2009
The Poorhouse
This book is more a study of the institution of the poorhouse itself, rather than one of individuals who lived there. There were some short anectdotes of inmates and those who ran poorhouses, but, as I was hoping for more detail on these people, I wasn't as pleased with it as I could have been.
As this book was written 2005 [I think:], I understand that it would be fairly difficult to get even second-hand accounts of life in a poorhouse, so perhaps an older book would be more what I was looking for.
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