Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899

Melanie Reynolds (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

251 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-67654-5 (ISBN)

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Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899 unlocks the hidden history of working-class child care during the second half of the nineteenth century, seeking to challenge those historians who have cast working-class women as feckless and maternally ignorant. By plotting the lives of northern women whilst they grappled with industrial waged work in the factory, in agriculture, in nail making, and in brick and salt works, this book reveals a different picture of northern childcare, one which points to innovative and enterprising child care models. Attention is also given to day-carers as they acted in loco parentis and the workhouse nurse who worked in conjunction with medical paediatrics to provide nineteenth-century welfare to pauper infants. Through the use of a new and wide range of source material, which includes medical and poor law history, Melanie Reynolds allows a fresh and new perspective of working-class child care to arise.

Melanie Reynolds is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK and was previously Tutor in History at Ruskin College. Her other publications include 'A Man Who Won't Back a Woman is No Man at All': The 1875 Heavy Woollen Dispute and the Narrative of Women's Trade Unionism' in Labour History (2006).

Introduction
1. The Scholarship of Working-Class Women's Waged Work and their Child Care
2. Industrial Mothers
3. The Workhouse Nurse
4. The Workhouse Infant Diet
5. Day-Carers and Baby-Minders
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	IX, 251 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
Schlagworte	Care • child care • History • History of Literature • Industrialization • Infant Mortality • Law • Medical History • Model • Poor Law • Tradition • Women
ISBN-10	1-349-67654-3 / 1349676543
ISBN-13	978-1-349-67654-5 / 9781349676545
Zustand	Neuware