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.