Ordinary People

In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age

• Author(s): David Wagner,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 264
• ISBN_10: 1317254945
  ISBN_13: 9781317254942
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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.