Lays from the Poorhouse

Lays from the Poorhouse
Author: Senior Lecturer John Young
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781356845781

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The Poorhouse Fair

The Poorhouse Fair
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0679645772

“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

In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
Author: Michael B Katz
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1996-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0465024521

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.