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