The Fundamental Institution : Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms

University of Illinois Press

The Fundamental Institution\nby Megan Birk\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Megan Birk\nTitle: The Fundamental Institution\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poverty and precarity\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9780252086458\nISBN-10: 0252086457\nRRP: \u00A323.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nBy 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 poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for the indigent, poor farms in fact attr.