Pricing Priceless ChildBasic Books, 04.06.1985 - 277 Seiten In this landmark book, sociologist Viviana Zelizer traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless," from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. The heightened emotional status of children resulted, for example, in the legal justification of children's life insurance policies and in large damages awarded by courts to their parents in the event of death. A vivid account of changing attitudes toward children, this book dramatically illustrates the limits of economic views of life that ignore the pervasive role of social, cultural, emotional, and moral factors in our marketplace world. |
Inhalt
Moral Conflict | 56 |
From a Proper Burial to a Proper | 113 |
From Useful to Useless and Back | 208 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accidental death accidents adult agencies allowance Ariès awards baby farming became boarding homes Charities Chicago chil child actors child death child insurance Child Labor Amendment Child Labor Committee child labor legislation Child Welfare childhood children's insurance City commercial compensation court cultural damages dollars dren early earnings economic and sentimental economically useless emotional Felix Adler foster home care foster homes foster parents girls household Ibid infant instance Insurance of Children Jackie Coogan Jacob Riis Journal killed Law Review Metropolitan Life Insurance middle-class moral mother National Child Labor nineteenth century nomic noneconomic payment pecuniary percent Philippe Ariès priceless child profit Report sacred child safety Saturday Evening Post sentimental value social social class Society stage street theater tion twentieth century U.S. Children's Bureau University Press useless child value of children wages White House Conference workers working-class Wrongful Death York York City