The Poorhouse

Author : Devereux Bowly
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809390687

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Chicago seems an ideal environment for public housing because of the city’s relatively young age among major cities and well-deserved reputation for technology, innovation, and architecture. Yet The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago shows that the city’s experience on the whole has been a negative one, raising serious questions about the nature of subsidized housing and whether we should have it and, if so, in what form. Bowly, a native of the city, provides a detailed examination of subsidized housing in the nation’s third-largest city. Now in its second edition, The Poorhouse looks at the history of public housing and subsidized housing in Chicago from 1895 to the present day. Five new chapters that cover the decline and federal takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority, and its more recent “transformation,” which involved the demolition of the CHA family high-rise buildings and in some cases their replacement with low-risemixed income housing on the same sites. Fifty new photos supplement this edition. Certificate of Excellence from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645771

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The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike Pdf

“Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art.”—The New York Times Book Review The hero of John Updike’s first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhouse—a county home for the aged and infirm—overseen by Stephen Conner, a righteous young man who considers it his duty to know what is best for others. The action of the novel unfolds over a single summer’s day, the day of the poorhouse’s annual fair, a day of escalating tensions between Conner and the rebellious Hook. Its climax is a contest between progress and tradition, benevolence and pride, reason and faith. Praise for The Poorhouse Fair “A first novel of rare precision and real merit . . . a rich poorhouse indeed.”—Newsweek “Turning on a narrow plot of ground, it achieves the rarity of bounded, native truth, and comes forth as microcosm.”—Commonweal

Author : David Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742529452

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The Poorhouse by David Wagner Pdf

Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Exploring the history of the 'inmates' as well as staff and officials in New England, this book connects contemporary times to the 'poorhouse' history as the homeless shelter, jail, prison, and other institutions again hold millions of poor people under institutional care, sometimes in the very same structures that were poorhouses.

Author : Michael B Katz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465024520

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In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Michael B Katz Pdf

With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to “end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origins of social welfare, both public and private, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of the homeless. The book explains why such a highly criticized system persists. Katz explores the relationship between welfare and municipal reform; the role of welfare capitalism, eugenics, and social insurance in the reorganization of the labor market; the critical connection between poverty and politics in the rise of the New Deal welfare state; and how the War on Poverty of the '60s became the war on welfare of the '80s.

Author : TOMMY L. GARDNER
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781414055565

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Spending Your Way to the Poorhouse by TOMMY L. GARDNER Pdf

There are thousands of book out there that promise you riches and wealth. My book doesnt give you a magic potion that will let you become rich overnight. It simply tells you in simple, easy to read terms how to take control of your spending and saving practices so you can avoid financial destruction. If you simply want to know how to keep some of the money you earn and save some of it, this book is for you. Before you can learn money management, you must reprogram yourself to learn a different way to spend and save. In life, we learn, unlearn and relearn. Dealing with money is no different. This book is filled with simple, down-to-earth, easy to read ways to change your life financially. It contains some humorous stories and quotes about money to get you thinking about where you are, and where you want to be financially. I honestly want to help you with your money problems. With this book in hand, you can learn ways you never dreamed to handle money in your day-to-day lives. You wont be disappointed.

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345468239

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The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike Pdf

“Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art.”—The New York Times Book Review The hero of John Updike’s first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhouse—a county home for the aged and infirm—overseen by Stephen Conner, a righteous young man who considers it his duty to know what is best for others. The action of the novel unfolds over a single summer’s day, the day of the poorhouse’s annual fair, a day of escalating tensions between Conner and the rebellious Hook. Its climax is a contest between progress and tradition, benevolence and pride, reason and faith. Praise for The Poorhouse Fair “A first novel of rare precision and real merit . . . a rich poorhouse indeed.”—Newsweek “Turning on a narrow plot of ground, it achieves the rarity of bounded, native truth, and comes forth as microcosm.”—Commonweal

Author : John Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Poor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010500598

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Lays from the Poorhouse by John Young Pdf

Author : Fred R. Harris,Alan Curtis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742509044

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Locked in the Poorhouse by Fred R. Harris,Alan Curtis Pdf

Poverty in the United States is worse than it was 30 years ago when the original Kerner Commission Report was issued: The poor get poorer even in the midst of a U.S. economic boom, the country is resegregating, and poor African-Americans and Hispanics are becoming concentrated in cities from which it is even harder to escape. This book shows what works and what doesn't in dealing with these problems and offers practical policy recommendations for changing America's present course.

Author : Henry Dunning Macleod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018977499

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The Results of Operation of the Poorhouse System in Easter Ross. Reprinted from the Inverness Courier, Revised & Corrected by Henry Dunning Macleod Pdf

Author : Isabel C. Byrum
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596056626

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The Poorhouse Waif And His Divine Teacher by Isabel C. Byrum Pdf

Until the sixth year of Edwin's life he never heard that he had ever had a father, a mother, or a home other than the place in which he was then living. He knew only that he existed, and that from day to day there were many things happening about him, some of which he enjoyed, but a great many of which were distasteful to him. But all that took place he quietly endured, thinking that it was the best that there was in life for him.-from "Life in the Almshouse"This 1919 work is the true story of Edwin, a saintly orphan who starts life the child of a "wayward mother" and later perseveres through privation, temptations of evil and superstition, and the doubt of his fellows to come to know, love, and serve God. A classic of religious inspiration that's long been out of print, it will comfort and encourage those who discover it anew today.ISABEL C. BYRUM also wrote How John Became a Man (1909) and The Pilot's Voice (1916).

Author : John Young (of Glasgow, Writer of Verse.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000554604

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Lays from the Poorhouse. Being a Collection of Temperance and Miscellaneous Pieces, Chiefly Scottish by John Young (of Glasgow, Writer of Verse.) Pdf

Author : John YOUNG (of Port Dundas, Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026360985

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Lays from the Poorhouse; Being a Collection of Temperance and Miscellaneous Pieces, Chiefly Scottish by John YOUNG (of Port Dundas, Glasgow.) Pdf

Author : State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044088941513

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Hand-book for Visitors to the Poorhouse by State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Eugene McCabe
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015047584332

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Tales from the Poorhouse by Eugene McCabe Pdf

This book consists of a remarkable suite of four monologues: "The Orphan", "The Master", "The Landlord", and "The Mother". They place in counterpoint, the stories of a mother and her daughter, a landlord, and the Master of a workhouse in mid-19th century Ireland. In the immediate aftermath of the "hard hunger", and against the backdrop of other miseries -- an American Wake, poverty, deaths in childbearing -- Eugene McCabe relates memories, confessions, and apologies. Through nimble shifts of time, perspective, and voices, he reveals why he is celebrated as a chronicler of complex historical predicaments and the details of social nuance. In this memorable fiction, his imagination and narrative artistry are at their most vital.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106494503

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf