Containing the Poor : The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871 /
In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House--the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arro...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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