Ramey, Jessie B.
Child care in black and white working parents and the history of orphanages / [electronic resource] : Jessie B. Ramey. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012. - xii, 271 p. : ill. - Working class in American history .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Orphanages--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Children--Institutional care--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Working poor--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Poor women--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Race discrimination--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Race relations--History.
Electronic books.
HV995.P6 / R36 2012eb
362.73/2
Child care in black and white working parents and the history of orphanages / [electronic resource] : Jessie B. Ramey. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012. - xii, 271 p. : ill. - Working class in American history .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Orphanages--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Children--Institutional care--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Working poor--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Poor women--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Race discrimination--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Race relations--History.
Electronic books.
HV995.P6 / R36 2012eb
362.73/2