Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age

ISBN-13: 9781594514616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 264 str.

David Wagner

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Ordinary People Chapter 2: The Context: Tewksbury Almshouse, Immigration and Industrialization Part I: Mobility: Geographic and Economic Chapter 3: The "Uprooted": Immigrants and Migrants Chapter 4: Falling Down: Yet a Surprising Resilience Part II: The "Family Crisis" of the Gilded Age Chapter 5: "Criminal Intimacies": Out of Wedlock Sex Chapter 6: Family Conflict and Desertion Part III: Age and Poverty: Children and the Elderly Chapter 7: Being "Put Out": Children in and out of the Almshouse Chapter 8: "We Can Do Nothing for Him": The Fate of the Elderly Chapter 9: From History's Shadows: Partial Views of the Poor

O autorze

Authored by Wagner, David