Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

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1994
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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. This book traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically 'useless' and emotionally 'priceless,' from the late 1800s to the 1930s.

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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. This book traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically 'useless' and emotionally 'priceless,' from the late 1800s to the 1930s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 08 Aug 1994
ISBN 10: 0691034591
ISBN 13: 9780691034591

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

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$38.55

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$38.55

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