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How welfare worked in the early United States : five microhistories /

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"The year George Washington was finishing his first term as president, 1792, William Larned was beginning his first term as overseer of the poor for Providence, Rhode Island. Larned would be re-elected for another thirty-five one-year terms and arguably exercised more authority over locals than...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loiacono, Gabriel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Public welfare > United States > History.
Poor > United States > History.
Poor laws > United States > History.
Lois sur les pauvres > États-Unis > Histoire.
Poor
Poor laws
Public welfare
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What can we learn from these five microhistories?
  • Overseer of the poor: How William Larned spent public funds on the needy
  • Warned out: How Cuff Roberts was banished by poor law officials
  • Healthcare for the poor: How "One-Eyed" Sarah saved paupers' lives
  • Hard-working single mother: Lydia Bates and poor relief in a small town
  • Stuck in the poorhouse: William Fales and the experience of institutionalization
  • Epilogue: What can we learn from these five lives?