Wives Without Husbands Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900-1935

Name: Wives Without Husbands Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900-1935
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ISBN: 9780807857793

ISBN-10: 0807857793

ISBN-13: 9780807857793

Edition: 2006

Authors: Anna R. Igra

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Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute "deadbeat dads,"Wives without Husbandstraces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make "runaway husbands" support their families. Anna R. Igra investigates the interrelated histories of marriage and welfare policy in the early 1900s, revealing how reformers sought to make marriage the solution to women's and children's poverty. Igra taps a rich trove of case files from the National Desertion Bureau, a Jewish husband-location agency, and follows hundreds of deserted women through the welfare and legal systems of early twentieth-century New York City. She integrates a broad range of…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 12/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Anna R. Igra is associate professor of history and director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Carleton College.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



They Need Not Become a Burden to the State



The Creation of an Antidesertion System in New York



Ambivalent Breadwinners and the Public Purse



Bread Givers: From Desertion to the National Desertion Bureau



Desertion and the Courts



Deserted Women and Social Welfare Policy


Epilogue: The Legacy of Antidesertion Reform


Notes


Bibliography


Index