Awards
- Winner of <DIV>Herbert G. Gutman Prize, Labor and Working-Class History Association, 2010. Lerner-Scott Prize in Women's History, Organization of American H 2010
- Winner of <DIV>Herbert G. Gutman Prize, Labor and Working-Class History Association, 2010. Lerner-Scott Prize in Women's History, Organization of American Historians, 2010. John Heinz Award, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2010.</DIV> 2010
Overview
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. Drawing on quantitative analysis of the records of more than 1,500 children living at the two orphanages, as well as census data, city logs, and contemporary social science surveys, this study raises new questions about the role of childcare in constructing and perpetrating social inequality in the United States.
Full Product Details
Author: Jessie B. Ramey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780252079634
ISBN 10: 0252079639
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 25 June 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
An important book that will appeal to all scholars interested in the histories of child welfare, the working class, or social welfare. Highly recommended. --Choice This book is an important contribution to the history of child welfare policy. Jessie B. Ramey's research illustrates the role racial segregation played in a northern industrialized city in child welfare policies for dependent children whose parents turned to orphanages for help. --Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s
""An important book that will appeal to all scholars interested in the histories of child welfare, the working class, or social welfare. Highly recommended.""--Choice ""This book is an important contribution to the history of child welfare policy. Jessie B. Ramey's research illustrates the role racial segregation played in a northern industrialized city in child welfare policies for dependent children whose parents turned to orphanages for help.""--Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s
This book is an important contribution to the history of child welfare policy. Jessie B. Ramey's research illustrates the role racial segregation played in a northern industrialized city in child welfare policies for dependent children whose parents turned to orphanages for help. --Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s <br>
"""An important book that will appeal to all scholars interested in the histories of child welfare, the working class, or social welfare. Highly recommended.""--Choice ""This book is an important contribution to the history of child welfare policy. Jessie B. Ramey's research illustrates the role racial segregation played in a northern industrialized city in child welfare policies for dependent children whose parents turned to orphanages for help.""--Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s"
Author Information
Jessie B. Ramey is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Women's Studies and History at the University of Pittsburgh.
