Constructing Orphans

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie B. Ramey
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working Families ◽  
Historical Agency ◽  
Short Time

This introductory chapter explores how working families shaped institutional child care, emphasizing the historical agency of parents and the children themselves in that process. Throughout this study, the term “child care” is used to mean assistance with the daily labor of caring for children; and specifically in the case of orphanages, parents' tactic of placing their children temporarily in institutions with the intention of retrieving them after a relatively short time. Working parents and their children continually cooperated with orphanage managers, who also had to bargain with progressive reformers, staff members, and the broader community over the future of their organizations. The book argues that the development of institutional child care was premised upon and rife with gender, race, and class inequities—these persistent ideologies had consequences for the evolution of social welfare and modern child care.

Child Care in Black and White

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie B. Ramey
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Working Families ◽  
Short Time

This innovative study examines the development of institutional child care from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two “sister” orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children. Drawing on quantitative analysis of the records of more than 1,500 children living at the two orphanages, as well as census data, city logs, and contemporary social science surveys, this study raises new questions about the role of child care in constructing and perpetrating social inequality in the United States.The book explores how working families shaped institutional child care. The term “child care” is used to mean assistance with the daily labor of caring for children; and specifically in the case of orphanages, parents' tactic of placing their children temporarily in institutions with the intention of retrieving them after a relatively short time. The book argues that the development of institutional child care was premised upon and rife with gender, race, and class inequities—these persistent ideologies had consequences for the evolution of social welfare and modern child care.

Gender, Parenting, and The Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-205
Author(s):  
Allison Dunatchik ◽  
Kathleen Gerson ◽  
Jennifer Glass ◽  
Jerry A. Jacobs ◽  
Haley Stritzel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Care Centers ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Nationally Representative

We examine how the shift to remote work altered responsibilities for domestic labor among partnered couples and single parents. The study draws on data from a nationally representative survey of 2,200 US adults, including 478 partnered parents and 151 single parents, in April 2020. The closing of schools and child care centers significantly increased demands on working parents in the United States, and in many circumstances reinforced an unequal domestic division of labor.

scholarly journals Recalling the Future of ACC

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Richard Gaskins
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Tort Reform ◽  
Accident Insurance ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Accident Compensation ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law

Richard Gaskins visited the Law Faculty as a Fulbright from January to August 1999 to study developments in the Accident Compensation regime. His visit coincided with the controversy surrounding the National Government’s Accident Insurance Act 1998. Professor Gaskins gave the following paper, in which he addresses the continued importance of the Woodhouse Report, at a seminar on Accident Compensation held as part of the 1999 Australasian Law Teachers' Association Conference.In the paper he highlights two important insights of the Woodhouse Report that he believes have lasting value: its linking of tort reform to social welfare and its promotion of an ecological approach to preventing accidents. Professor Gaskins concludes that both insights retain their importance and challenges legal academics to address them as well as the more narrowly based law and economic approach to accidents that has dominated legal policy and academic thought since the early 1970s.

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