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



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Autore: Ramey Jessie B Visualizza persona
Titolo: Child care in black and white [[electronic resource] ] : working parents and the history of orphanages / / Jessie B. Ramey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
Disciplina: 362.73/2
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Child care in black and white  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-252-09442-5
1-283-99358-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779465603321
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Serie: Working class in American history.