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A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890–1960
Elizabeth Rose
Abstract
Using Philadelphia as a case study, this book explores the history of day care from the perspective of families who have used it, tracing day care's transformation from a charity for poor single mothers in the early 20th century to a legitimate and culturally accepted social need for ordinary families—and a potential responsibility of government—by the 1950s.
Keywords: Philadelphia, day care, single mothers, families, charity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1999 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195111125 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195111125.001.0001 |
