Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children /
Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman,
Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children / Viviana A. Zelizer. - xvi, 277 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index.
Preface (1994) -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From mobs to memorials: the sacralization of child life -- From useful to useless: moral conflict over child labor -- From child labor to child work: redefining the economic world of children -- From a proper burial to a proper education: the case of children's insurance -- From wrongful death to wrongful birth: the changing legal evaluation of children -- From baby farms to black-market babies: the changing market for children -- From useful to useless and back to useful? emerging patterns in the valuation of children -- Notes -- Index.
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.
0691034591 9780691034591
93039140
Child rearing--Costs.--United States
Child labor--United States
Children--Public opinion--History.--United States
Public opinion--History--United States
Social values.
HQ792.U5 / Z45 1994
305.230973
Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children / Viviana A. Zelizer. - xvi, 277 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index.
Preface (1994) -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From mobs to memorials: the sacralization of child life -- From useful to useless: moral conflict over child labor -- From child labor to child work: redefining the economic world of children -- From a proper burial to a proper education: the case of children's insurance -- From wrongful death to wrongful birth: the changing legal evaluation of children -- From baby farms to black-market babies: the changing market for children -- From useful to useless and back to useful? emerging patterns in the valuation of children -- Notes -- Index.
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.
0691034591 9780691034591
93039140
Child rearing--Costs.--United States
Child labor--United States
Children--Public opinion--History.--United States
Public opinion--History--United States
Social values.
HQ792.U5 / Z45 1994
305.230973