Domestic economies
Subtitle: family, work, and welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943
By: Ann S. Blum.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803213593
Subjects: Díaz, Porfirio, -- 1830-1915 -- Political and social views; Díaz, Porfirio, -- 1830-1915 -- Influence; Family -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 19th century; Family -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 20th century; Child welfare -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History; Child labor -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History; Labor -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History; Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1867-1910; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt 1. The Porfirian family : child welfare, child labor, and child nurture, 1884-1912; title: Porfirian patterns and meanings of child circulation : child labor and child welfare in the capital city; title: Labor or love : trends in Porfirian adoption practice; title: Moral and medical economies of motherhood : infant feeding at the Mexico City Foundling Home; title: pt. 2. Reworking the family : family relations and revolutionary reform, 1913-1943; title: The family in the revolutionary order : conceptual foundations; title: The revolutionary family : children's health and collective identities; title: Domestic economies : family dynamics, child labor, and child circulation; title: Breaking and making families : adoption, child labor, and women's work; title: Conclusion: Family, work, and welfare in modern Mexico.