Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights The Shaping of America`s Child Care Policy

Name: Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights The Shaping of America`s Child Care Policy
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ISBN: 9780300085518

ISBN-10: 0300085516

ISBN-13: 9780300085518

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sonya Michel

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Sonya Michel's study of American child care policy is based upon a range of archival material that demonstrates why the current child care system evolved as it has and places its history within a broad comparative context.

Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.13" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of Abbreviations


Prologue


Introduction: Child Care and Social Citizenship for Women



The Multiple Origins of American Child Care



The Road Not Taken: A Turning Point in Policies Toward Wage-Earning Mothers



Studied Neglect: Federal Inaction in the 1920s



Uncle Sam's Cradles: New Deal and Wartime Policies



Should Mothers Work? Prescriptions and Practices in the Postwar Era



Making an Issue of Child Care



A Divided Constituency


Epilogue: American Child Care in Comparative Perspective


Appendixes


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index