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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Ordinary people : in and out of poverty in the gilded age by David Wagner. ISBN 9781594514609. Published by Paradigm Publishers in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
