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Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children / Viviana A. Zelizer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: xvi, 277 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691034591
  • 9780691034591
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.230973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ792.U5 Z45 1994
Contents:
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.
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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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.

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