Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children / Viviana A. Zelizer.
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994Description: xvi, 277 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0691034591Subject(s): Child rearing -- United States -- Costs | Child labor -- United States | Children -- United States -- Public opinion -- History | Public opinion -- United States -- History | Social values | Children -- United States -- Economic aspects -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.23/0973 LOC classification: HQ792.U5 | Z45 1994| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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University of Macedonia Library Βιβλιοστάσιο Α (Stack Room A) | Main Collection | HQ792.U5Z45 1994 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0013106993 |
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-266) and index.
Introduction -- 1. From mobs to memorials : the sacralization of child life -- 2. From useful to useless : moral conflict over child labor -- 3. From child labor to child work : redefining the economic world of children -- 4. From a proper burial to a proper education : the case of children's insurance -- 5. From wrongful death to wrongful birth : the changing legal evaluation of children -- 6. From baby farms to black-market babies : the changing market for children -- 7. From useful to useless and back to useful? : emerging patterns in the valuation of children.
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