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Author Ramey, Jessie B.

Title Child care in black and white : working parents and the history of orphanages / Jessie B. Ramey
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
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Description 1 online resource
Series The working class in American history
Working class in American history.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Children -- Institutional care
Orphanages
Poor women
Race discrimination
Race relations
Working poor
Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019716620
ISBN 9780252094422
0252094425
1283993589
9781283993586