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Widows and Orphans First investigates the significance of neighborhood economies and values within the origins of the welfare nation via an exploration of widows' lives in 3 business American towns with broadly differing fiscal, ethnic, and racial bases. _x000B_In Fall River, Massachusetts, employment used to be considered as the answer to widows' poverty, so public charitable expenditure was once vastly restricted. In Pittsburgh, the place few jobs have been to be had for ladies or children--and the place jobs for males have been in "widowmaking" industries akin to metal and railroading--the city's charitable institutions have been extra sympathetic. within the border urban of Baltimore, which had a wide African American inhabitants and a various economic climate that trusted reasonably cheap baby and feminine exertions, money for public prone have been constrained, and African american citizens tended to set up their very own charitable associations. during this targeted comparative learn of widows' welfare and relatives economic system, Jay Kleinberg examines the position of youngsters in society and the advance of social welfare coverage for widows.

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