Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
ISBN: 978-1-59451-461-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time.
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chapterOne Ordinary People; chapterTwo The Context: The Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury, Immigration, and Industrialization; partOne Mobility: Geographic and Economic; chapterThree The “Uprooted”: Immigrants and Migrants; chapterFour Falling Down: Yet a Surprising Resilience; partTwo The “Crisis” in the Family; chapterFive “Criminal Intimacies”: Out-of-Wedlock Births; chapterSix Family Conflict and Desertion; partThree Age and Poverty: Children and the Elderly; chapterSeven Being “Put Out”: Children in and out of the Almshouse; chapterEight “We Can Do Nothing for Him”: The Fate of the Elderly; chapterNine From History’s Shadows: Part Ial Views of the Poor;
