Amish Women and the Great Depression

by Steven D. Reschly and Katherine Jellison

A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.

At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the most economically and culturally stable agricultural community in the nation. In Amish Women and the Great Depression, Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly examine the integral role...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421447975
• ISBN13: 9781421447971
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher