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Child care in black and white [electronic resource] : working parents and the history of orphanages / Jessie B. Ramey.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-Ebook Central Academic Complete	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	xii, 271 p. : ill.
Series	Working class in American history
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780252036903 (hardback alk. paper)
	0252036905 (hardback alk. paper)
	9780252094422 (e-book)
OCLC #	EBC3414190

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