The Fundamental Institution W Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collection

Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collection

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The Fundamental Institution W Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collectionBy 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,