Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children / Viviana A. Zelizer.
This study traces the emergence of changing attitudes about the child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless", from the late 1800s to the 1930s. It describes how turn-of-the-century America discovered new, sentimental ways to determine a child's monetary...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1994]
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| Summary: | This study traces the emergence of changing attitudes about the child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless", from the late 1800s to the 1930s. It describes how turn-of-the-century America discovered new, sentimental ways to determine a child's monetary worth. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1985. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 277 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691034591 9780691034591 |