chapterOne Ordinary People; chapterTwo The Context: The Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury, Immigration, and Industrialization; partOne Mobility: Geographic and Economic; chapterThree The “Uprooted”: Immigrants and Migrants; chapterFour Falling Down: Yet a Surprising Resilience; partTwo The “Crisis” in the Family; chapterFive “Criminal Intimacies”: Out-of-Wedlock Births; chapterSix Family Conflict and Desertion; partThree Age and Poverty: Children and the Elderly; chapterSeven Being “Put Out”: Children in and out of the Almshouse; chapterEight “We Can Do Nothing for Him”: The Fate of the Elderly; chapterNine From History’s Shadows: Part Ial Views of the Poor;