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Author:

Wagner, David

Title:

Ordinary people : in and out of poverty in the gilded age / David Wagner.

Publisher:

Paradigm Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vi, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Almshouses--United States--History--19th century.
Poor--United States--History--19th century.
Public welfare--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.

Contents:

Ordinary people -- The context : the Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury, immigration, and industrialization -- The "uprooted" : immigrants and migrants -- Falling down : yet a surprising resilience -- "Criminal intimacies" : out-of-wedlock births -- Family conflict and desertion -- Being "put out" : children in and out of the almshouse -- "We can do nothing for him" : the fate of the elderly -- From history's shadows : partial views of the poor.

ISBN:

1594514607 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781594514609 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)180190783

LCCN:

2007043348

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)