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02976aam a22004578i 4500 001 53BF12A8B4A811ECBDCF981B5BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220405011336 008 211126s2022 ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021046459 020 $a 025204438X 020 $a 9780252044380 020 $a 0252086457 020 $a 9780252086458 035 $a (OCoLC)1266358067 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV63 U6 B57 2022 084 $a SOC016000 $a SOC016000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Birk, Megan, $d 1979- $e author. 245 14 $a The fundamental institution : $b poverty, social welfare, and agriculture in American poor farms / $c Megan Birk. 263 $a 2203 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2022] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The founding of community institutions -- Populations and conditions -- Farming for the county -- Poor farm women -- The poor farm and mental health care -- Old age and poor farm residency -- Poor farms and health care -- Crisis and transition. 520 $a "By 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 attracted wards that ranged from abused wives and the elderly to orphans, the disabled, and disaster victims. Most people arrived unable rather than unwilling to work, some because of physical problems, others due to a lack of skills or because a changing labor market had left them behind. Birk blends the personal stories of participants with institutional histories to reveal a loose-knit system that provided a measure of care to everyone without an overarching philosophy of reform or rehabilitation. In-depth and innovative, The Fundamental Institution offers an overdue portrait of rural social welfare in the United States"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Almshouses $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Rural poor $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Rural poor $z United States $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Agriculture $x Social aspects $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Rural conditions. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1865-1918. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1918-1932. 648 7 $a 1865-1932 $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Birk, Megan, 1979- $t Fundamental institution $d Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022] $z 9780252053375 $w (DLC) 2021046460 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004011349.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=53BF12A8B4A811ECBDCF981B5BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search