Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children [electronic resource] : negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Sherri Broder.
Publication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.Description: 259 p. : illISBN:- 0812236548 (alk. paper)
- 9780812236545
- 9780812201451 (e-book)
- Family social work -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Child welfare -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Poor families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Working class families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- 362.7/09748/1109034 21
- HV699.4.P5 B76 2002eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Tramps, Fallen Women, and Neglected Children: Political Culture and the Urban Poor in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. Informing the "Cruelty": Laboring Communities and Reform Intervention -- 3. Dens of Inequities: Laboring Families and Reform Intervention -- 4. Illegitimate Mothers, Redemptive Maternity -- 5. Murderous Mothers and Mercenary Baby Farmers?.
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