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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Joel E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2019.
Subjects:
Poor > Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.