Poor Women and Their Families - Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930

This book brings to life early-century counterparts of urban women identified today as victims of the "feminization of poverty" and recipients of aid from assistance programs. With new details and original interpretations, this book moves beyond earlier studies that focus only on female employment or family life of this generation. It shows what poor women tried to do in the midst of multiple roles. The book integrates themes of child rearing and homemaking with those of women's relations to men, their reliance on female kin, and their involvement in the neighborhood, in employment, and with city agencies and institutions.

About the author

Beverly Stadum is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at St. Cloud University in Minnesota.

Product details

• Authors: Beverly Stadum
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.1992
• EAN: 9780791407516
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0751-6
• No. of pages: 235
• Series: Suny Series on the Presidency: Suny Series on the Presidency; Suny American Labor History
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education