Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853-1920

by Gregg Andrews

Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853-1920, is the first comprehensive examination of a workhouse in the United States, offering a critical history of the institution in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Using the Old St. Louis Workhouse as a representative example, award-winning historian Gregg Andrews brings to life individual stories of men and women sentenced to this debtors' prison to break rocks in the quarry, sew clothing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807182788
• ISBN13: 9780807182789
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.6"