A Mother's Job
The History of Day Care, 1890-1960
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:4th Mar '99
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- Paperback£39.49(9780195168105)
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.
... 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 *
ISBN: 9780195111125
Dimensions: 159mm x 235mm x 25mm
Weight: 644g
296 pages