A Mother's Job : he History of Day Care, 1890–1960 [ electronic resource ] /
by Elizabeth Rose.
- Oxford Scholarship Online, 2011
Using Philadelphia as a case study, this book explores the history of day care from the perspective of families who have used it, tracing day care's transformation from a charity for poor single mothers in the early 20th century to a legitimate and culturally accepted social need for ordinary families—and a potential responsibility of government—by the 1950s.