Broder, Sherri.

Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / [electronic resource] : Sherri Broder. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002. - 259 p. : ill.

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?.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Family social work--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
Child welfare--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
Poor families--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
Working class families--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.


Electronic books.

HV699.4.P5 / B76 2002

362.7/09748/1109034