UID:
almafu_9959245923602883
Format:
1 online resource (265 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-24434-9
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9786613244345
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0-252-09324-0
Series Statement:
Women in American history
Content:
At the end of WWII, the federal gvernment announced plans to terminate its public child care services that had been established during the war for working mothers. Analyzing the informal networks of cross-class and cross-race reformers, policymakers, and educators, this work traces the changing alliances among these groups.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Californians secure wartime child care -- Postwar hopes: the fight for permanent child care, 1945-47 -- Child care "is a state problem": working mothers and educators take action, 1947-51 -- "We need to stand together": Theresa Mahler, Mary Young, and the coalition's victory in the 1950's -- "We do not consider ourselves welfare cases": education-based child care and low-income working families, 1958-65 -- A different kind of welfare state: California's child care coalition in the age of protest, 1966-71.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-252-07924-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-252-03625-5
Language:
English
