Ordinary people
Subtitle: in and out of poverty in the gilded age
By: David Wagner.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781594514609
Subjects: 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.
Table of contents: title: Ordinary people; title: The context : the Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury, immigration, and industrialization; title: The "uprooted" : immigrants and migrants; title: Falling down : yet a surprising resilience; title: "Criminal intimacies" : out-of-wedlock births; title: Family conflict and desertion; title: Being "put out" : children in and out of the almshouse; title: "We can do nothing for him" : the fate of the elderly; title: From history's shadows : partial views of the poor.