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 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 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 Farm written by Elisha Cooper and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society of Illustrators 2006 Gold Medal recipient, Elisha Cooper, captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm. Society of Illustrators 2006 Gold Medal recipient, Elisha Cooper, captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm. There is so much to look at and learn about on a farm - animals, tractors, crops, and barns. And children feeding animals for morning chores With lyrical writing and beautiful illustrations that capture the rhythms of the changing seasons, Elisha Cooper brings the farm to life.
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 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 Bureau Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1428 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 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 The Labor Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Bureau Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Labor written by Jean Atherton Flexner and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of Psychiatric Clinics for Children in the United States written by National Committee for Mental Hygiene and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children of Illegitimate Birth Whose Mothers Have Kept Their Custody written by Alice Madorah Donahue and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Are You Training Your Child to be Happy written by Armin Klein and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 970 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 1967 with total page 86 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:
