Infant mortality and working-class child care, 1850-1899 [electronic resource] / Melanie Reynolds, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
2016
HQ778.7.G7 R49 2016
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Title
Infant mortality and working-class child care, 1850-1899 [electronic resource] / Melanie Reynolds, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
ISBN
9781137369048 (electronic book)
1137369043 (electronic book)
9781137369031
1137369043 (electronic book)
9781137369031
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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©2016
Language
English
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HQ778.7.G7 R49 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.7094109/034
Summary
Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899 unlocks the hidden history of northern working-class child care in the nineteenth century, investigating the child care models of working-class women in industrial and domestic arenas who have traditionally been cast by historians as the villains of infant life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-246) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The scholarship of working-class women's work and their child care models
Industrial mothers
Workhouse nurses
Workhouse infant diet
Day-carer and baby-minding
Conclusion.
The scholarship of working-class women's work and their child care models
Industrial mothers
Workhouse nurses
Workhouse infant diet
Day-carer and baby-minding
Conclusion.