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Structuring Poverty in the Windy City : Autonomy, Virtue, and Isolation in Post-Fire Chicago /

"By digging through local newspapers, magazines, city reports, legal decisions, and archival materials, Joel E. Black tells the stories of the "tramps," sex workers, and migrants who found themselves caught within structures of poverty--the web of theories, policies, institutions, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Black, Joel E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Structures of Poverty
  • Rise: Vagrancy, Poverty, and the Makings of an Order
  • Autonomy: Compelling "Tramps" to Jobs and Homes
  • Virtue: Trading in Sex and Wages
  • Isolation: Quarantine and the Legacy of Migration
  • Fall: Gangster "Tramps," Contracting Women, and the "New Negro"
  • Epilogue: The New Deal's Social Origins.