Poverty's prison : the poor in New South Wales 1880-1918
O'Brien, Anne1988
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Main title:
Poverty's prison : the poor in New South Wales 1880-1918 / by Anne O'Brien
Author:
Imprint:
Carlton Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1988
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations
Notes:
Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust collection
Contents:
Families -- Families inpoverty - Extended family and neighbours - The ideology of family support - Fathers -- Casual labour - State charity for the unemployment - Hazardes at work and after hours - Mothers -- Working women - Deserted wives - Surviving on the boarding-out allowance - Unmarried mothers -Reforming the fallen - Children -- Impovershed chidhood - A nineteenth century solution - Appernticeship of state children - Changing care for children - Children as breadwinners - The state and private care -- Expansion of state care - The religious impulse - Expansion of private care
Dewey class:
305.569
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
12449
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research | History Support Collection | 305.569 POV | Available |