Child care in black and white [electronic resource] : working parents and the history of orphanages / Jessie B. Ramey.
Series: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.Description: xii, 271 p. : illISBN:- 9780252036903 (hardback alk. paper)
- 0252036905 (hardback alk. paper)
- 9780252094422 (e-book)
- 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
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- HV995.P6 R36 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.