Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children /

Main Author: Zelizer, Viviana A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton,New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1994
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From mobs to memorials: the sacralization of child life
  • 2. From useful to useless: moral conflict over child labor
  • 3. From child labor to child work: redefining the economic world of children
  • 4. From a proper burial to a proper education: the case of childrenʹs insurance
  • 5. From wrongful death to wrongful birth: tha changing legal evaluation of children
  • 6. From baby farms to black-market babies: the changing market for children
  • 7. From useful to useless and back to useful? Emerging paterns in the valuation of children