Treatment of the Poor

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"The Great Entrepot for Mendicants": Foreign Poverty and Immigration Control in New York State to 1882
Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal
The Dilemma in Saving Children From Child Labor: Reform and Casework at Odds With Families' Needs (1900-1938)
Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism, 1850-1860: New Evidence
Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000
For Whose Benefit?: Social Control and the Construction of Providence's Dexter Asylum
Mapping the Boston Poor: Inmates of the Boston Almshouse, 1795—1801

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