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Author:

Reynolds, Melanie, 1959- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015047684

Title:

Infant mortality and working-class child care, 1850-1899 / Melanie Reynolds (Oxford Brookes University, UK).

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

ix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Child care--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Infants--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Working class women--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Working mothers--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Workhouses--Great Britain--History--19th century.
History.
Child care.
Infants--Mortality.
Workhouses.
Working class women--Social conditions.
Working mothers--Social conditions.
Great Britain.
1800 - 1899

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-246) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The scholarship of working-class women's work and their child care models -- Industrial mothers -- Workhouse nurses -- Workhouse infant diet -- Day-carer and baby-minding -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

1137369035
9781137369031

OCLC:

(OCoLC)945024390

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)