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Wives without husbands marriage, desertion, & welfare in New York, 1900-1935 /

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Main Author: Igra, Anna R.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
National Desertion Bureau, New York > History.
National Desertion Bureau, New York > Case studies.
Poor women > New York (State) > New York.
Women heads of households > New York (State) > New York.
Jewish women > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions.
Jewish women > New York (State) > New York > Economic conditions.
Absentee fathers > New York (State) > New York.
Desertion and non-support > New York (State) > New York.
Public welfare > New York (State) > New York.
Welfare recipients > New York (State) > New York.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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