Download or read book Work of Children on Illinois Farms written by Dorothy May Williams Burke and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Childhood on the Farm written by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources—not only memoirs and diaries but also census data—to create a vivid portrait of midwestern farm childhood from the early post–Civil War period through the Progressive Era growing pains of industrialization. Those personal accounts resurrect the essential experience of children’s work, play, education, family relations, and coming of age from their own perspectives. Steering a middle path between the myth of wholesome farm life and the reality of work that was often extremely dangerous, Riney-Kehrberg shows both the best and the worst that a rural upbringing had to offer midwestern youth a time before mechanization forever changed the rural scene and radio broke the spell of isolation. Down on the farm, truancy was not uncommon and chores were shared across genders. Yet farm children managed to indulge in inventive play—much of it homemade—to supplement store-bought toys and to get through the long spells between circuses. Filled with insightful personal stories and graced with dozens of highly evocative period photos, Childhood on the Farm is the only general history of midwestern farm children to use narratives written by the children themselves, giving a fresh voice to these forgotten years. Theirs was a way of life that was disappearing even as they lived it, and this book offers new insight into why, even if many rural youngsters became urban and suburban adults, they always maintained some affection for the farm.
Download or read book Fostering on the Farm written by Megan Birk and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. The farmers received free labor in return for providing room and board. Reformers, meanwhile, believed children learned lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that institutions simply could not provide. Drawing on institution records, correspondence from children and placement families, and state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system developed--and how the children involved may have become some of America's last indentured laborers. Between 1850 and 1900, up to one-third of farm homes contained children from outside the family. Birk reveals how the nostalgia attached to misplaced perceptions about healthy, family-based labor masked the realities of abuse, overwork, and loveless upbringings endemic in the system. She also considers how rural people cared for their own children while being bombarded with dependents from elsewhere. Finally, Birk traces how the ills associated with rural placement eventually forced reformers to transition to a system of paid foster care, adoptions, and family preservation.
Download or read book Publications of the Children s Bureau written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Class Gender and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century written by Elizabeth Ramey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles developed during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of U.S. agricultural development. It also generates surprising insights about the family farm we thought we knew, as well as the food and agricultural system today. Elizabeth A. Ramey theorizes the family farm as a complex hybrid of mostly feudal and ancient class structures. This class-based definition of the family farm yields unique insights into three broad aspects of U.S. agricultural history. First, the analysis highlights the crucial, yet under-recognized role of farm women and children’s unpaid labor in subsidizing the family farm. Second, it allows for a new, class-based perspective on the roots of the twentieth century "miracle of productivity" in U.S. agriculture, and finally, the book demonstrates how the unique set of contradictions and circumstances facing family farmers during the early twentieth century, including class exploitation, was connected to concern for their ability to serve the needs of U.S. industrial capitalist development. The argument presented here highlights the significant costs associated with the intensification of exploitation in the transition to industrial agriculture in the U.S. When viewed through the lens of class, the hallowed family farm becomes an example of one of the most exploitative institutions in the U.S. economy. This book is suitable for students who study economic history, agricultural studies, and labor economics.
Download or read book Bureau Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Family Farm written by Robert L. Switzer and published by Center for American Places. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzer's memoir covers four generations of life on the family farm in Illinois. The tale is enhanced with photographs plus watercolors and woodblock prints by the author's wife and son. Frank E. Barmore adds information about the nineteenth-century history of this family farm, the Barmore family, and the settling of that area of Illinois.
Download or read book Bureau publication United States Children s Bureau no 168 1926 written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children Indentured by the Wisconsin State Public School written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transformation of Rural Life written by Jane H. Adams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the
Download or read book Rural America written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dependent and Delinquent Children in North Dakota and South Dakota written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual REPORT OF THE CHIEF written by U.S. . CHILDREN'S BUREAU and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment Bulletin written by Illinois. Dept. of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Bureau Publications written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook for the Use of Boards of Directors Superintendents and Staffs of Institutions for Dependent Children written by Dorothy May Williams Burke and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
