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Working women in France, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Where, when, and which women were in work at marriage?

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Corrington Gill, Asst. WPA Administrator told the Senate Committee on relief today that large numbers of rural families are facing serious deprivation, Gill declared that at least 3,500,000 families. At more than one out of every four rural families has received public assistance at some time during the Depression.

Youth will make the revolution: creating and contesting the youth frame in the New Left

The civil service in the First World War

A new dawn for the new left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the long Sixties A new dawn for the new left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the long Sixties

Social service and the art of healing (1914)

James Burnham, Sidney Hook, and the Search for Intellectual Truth: From Communism to the Cold War, 1933–1956 James Burnham, Sidney Hook, and the Search for Intellectual Truth: From Communism to the Cold War, 1933–1956

The New Communalism: The Unrealized Mid-Twentieth Century Vision of Planned Unit Development

Nostalgia: a conceptual history

WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) supervisor instructing Spanish-American woman in weaving of rag rug. WPA project. Costilla, New Mexico (1939)

A Tale of Two Congresses: The Psychological Study of Psychical, Occult, and Religious Phenomena, 1900–1909

History of Australian inquiries reviewing institutions providing care for children

What do unions do? And how do they do it?

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Household composition and family structures of Ukrainian Cossacks in the second half of the eighteenth century Household composition and family structures of Ukrainian Cossacks in the second half of the eighteenth century

The Chevalier d’Eon: Transgender Diplomat at the Court of George III, 1763-1777

‘King Solomon’s mines cannot compare with the money that has been raked in by greyhound racing’: greyhound racing, its critics and the working class, c. 1926–1951 ‘King Solomon’s mines cannot compare with the money that has been raked in by greyhound racing’: greyhound racing, its critics and the working class, c. 1926–1951

Soviet animation and the thaw of the 1960s: not only for children

Days of Labour: Topographies of Power in Modern Peripheral Capitalism. The Case of The Industrial City of Łdź

Understanding the labour–environmental relationship in Britain, 1967–2011: a new narrative using political opportunity structure and coalition theory Understanding the labour–environmental relationship in Britain, 1967–2011: a new narrative using political opportunity structure and coalition theory

Poor-house establishment. The committee of the Township of Hillsborough, with the overseers, met at the Poor-house, on Saturday, the 21st of March, 1840, and after examining the accounts, the overseers make the following report (1840)

A Transnational Perspective on Psychosurgery: Beyond Portugal and the United States

History of institutions providing out-of-home residential care for children

Did she kill him? Addiction, adultery and arsenic in Victorian Britain

National Archives

WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC

This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. “Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year”

Efficiency and relief: a programme of social work (1906)

Davis Inlet: Canada’s third world

“We are a lost people.” That description by an Innu chief seemed fitting when a shocking video of six gas-sniffing teens, screaming they wanted to die, was broadcast to the world. The once-nomadic Innu of Labrador have struggled under a haze of isolation, poverty and addiction ever since their 1967 settlement. A second relocation, this time from the shantytown of Davis Inlet to the new community of Natuashish, offered much promise, but it was just the beginning of a long healing process.

Driving on Speed: Long-Haul Truck Drivers and Amphetamines in the Postwar Period

In this essay, Kevin Riley examines the history of amphetamine use by long-haul truck drivers in the United States in the postwar era, providing an extended analysis of the complex ways stimulant use was embedded in industry practice.

Life on “skid row” in Baltimore

Baltimore Sun

Skid Row Baltimore 1982. At one time, skid rows were confined to a certain area of the city, near the urban center and on the beaten track. Then, urban renewal and decentralization of the city had taken their toll, leaving the Baltimore skid rows less clearly defined and the population dispersed throughout low-income sections of the city.