| Description |
413 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-400) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Apprenticeship: Young Children in a Young Nation -- 2. The Mammy, the Nurse, and the Planter's Wife -- 3. Utopia, U.S.A.: The Nineteenth-Century Vision. The Shakers. The Oneida Community -- 4. The New Immigrants. Working Mothers, Working Children. The Settlement House Solution. The Extended Family: Jews, Italians, Blacks. The Ideal Institution. Placing Out: The Orphan Trains -- 5. The Rich and Not So Rich Between the Wars. Boarding Schools, Convents, and Other Live-In Arrangements. Nannies. Maids and Other Helpers -- 6. Borrowed Mothers: Foster Care in the Depression -- 7. Rosie the Riveter and Her Sisters -- 8. Child Care Revisited. |
| Subject |
Child care -- United States -- History.
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Children of working parents -- United States -- History.
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Child rearing -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0684193361: $26.00 ($35.00 Can.) |
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