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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813538603321

Autore

Ramey Jessie B

Titolo

Child care in black and white : working parents and the history of orphanages / / Jessie B. Ramey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

0-252-09442-5

1-283-99358-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Working class in American history

Disciplina

362.73/2

Soggetti

Orphanages - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

Children - Institutional care - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

Working poor - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

Poor women - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

Race discrimination - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

Race relations - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Institutionalizing orphans : the founding and managing women -- Raising orphans : the child care dilemma of families in crisis -- Boarding orphans : working parents' use of orphanages as child care -- Fathering orphans : gender and institutional child care -- Reforming orphans : progressive reformers and staff in the development of child care organizations -- Segregating orphans : the Home for Colored Children -- Conclusion : contesting orphans.

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two 'sister' orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children.