Child care in black and white [[electronic resource] ] : working parents and the history of orphanages / / Jessie B. Ramey
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Ramey Jessie B
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| Titolo: |
Child care in black and white [[electronic resource] ] : working parents and the history of orphanages / / Jessie B. Ramey
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Working class in American history.