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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.Description: vi, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781594514609 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1594514607 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV61 .W33 2008
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.

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.

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