Mother's Job
«... add[s] to our knowledge of the welfare state and the controversies surrounding age and gender roles ... warmly recommended.»
American Studies Today
Using Philadelphia as a case study, A Mother's Job explores the history of day care from the perspective of families who used it, tracing day care's transformation from a charity for poor single mothers in the early twentieth century to a legitimate and culturally accepted social need for ordinary families - and a potential responsibility of government - by the 1950s. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780195111125
- Utgivelsesår
- 1999
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«... add[s] to our knowledge of the welfare state and the controversies surrounding age and gender roles ... warmly recommended.»
American Studies Today
«... exhaustively researched ... Rose's important new book shows how some working-class mothers finally got the child care programmes they needed.»
American Historical Review