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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Melanie, 1959- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:
Child care > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Infants > Mortality > 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
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.