Ordinary people, in and out of poverty in the gilded age, David Wagner
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Ordinary people, in and out of poverty in the gilded age, David Wagner
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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Ordinary people
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bibliography
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180190783
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David Wagner
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in and out of poverty in the gilded age
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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 -- Statistical profile of Tewksbury inmates, 1865-1895
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