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9780197515433

How Welfare Worked in the Early United States Five Microhistories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780197515433

  • ISBN10:

    0197515436

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2021-04-29
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Gabriel J. Loiacono is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He has spent much of the past two decades studying the ways early Americans responded to poverty. Loiacono has published articles in The Atlantic, Rhode Island History, New England Quarterly, and Journal of Policy History.

Table of Contents


Introduction
Chapter 1: Overseer of the Poor: How William Larned Spent Public Funds on the Needy
Chapter 2: Warned Out: How Cuff Roberts was Banished by Poor Law Officials
Chapter 3: Healthcare for the Poor: How "One-Eyed" Sarah Saved Paupers' Lives
Chapter 4: Hard-working Single Mother: Lydia Bates and Poor Relief in a Small Town
Chapter 5: Stuck in the Poorhouse: William Fales and the Experience of Institutionalization
Epilogue: What Can We Learn from These Five Lives?

Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography

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