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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramey, Jessie B.

Series:

Working class in American history.

Working class in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orphanages--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.

Orphanages.

Children--Institutional care--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.

Children.

Working poor--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.

Working poor.

Poor women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.

Poor women.

Race discrimination--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.

Race discrimination.

Race relations--History.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252094422

0252094425

9781283993586

1283993589

OCLC:

1162198437