By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 17, 2013 If you’re a reader of Dickens or many other 19th century novelists, or a listener to Les Miserables, or a watcher of movies and TV series set in that era, you have some notion, however romanticized, of what it meant to be poor in the past: When you lived by your daily labor, earning barely enough to survive another day with no chance to save anything for the future, a day without labor meant tha...
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