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

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome.
Description	data file
Series	The working class in American history
	Working class in American history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index.
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.
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Language	English.
Subject	Orphanages -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History.
	Orphanages.
	Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
	History.
	Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History.
	Children -- Institutional care.
	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.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Children.
Other Form:	Print version: Child care in black and white 9780252036903 (hardback : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011039810
ISBN	9780252036903 hardback : alkaline paper
	0252036905 hardback : alkaline paper
	9780252094422 electronic
	0252094425
	1283993589
	9781283993586

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

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