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Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
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Preface (1994)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction31From Mobs to Memorials: The Sacralization of Child Life222From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict Over Child Labor563From Child Labor to Child Work: Redefining the Economic World of Children734From a Proper Burial to a Proper Education: The Case of Children's Insurance1135From Wrongful Death to Wrongful Birth: The Changing Legal Evaluation of Children1386From Baby Farms to Black-Market Babies: The Changing Market for Children1697From Useful to Useless and Back to Useful? Emerging Patterns in the Valuation of Children208Notes229Index267
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- Langsam, M. Z., & Zelizer, V. A.
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- The American Historical Review
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- JSTOR
- Published
- 1986-12
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1261
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- 0002-8762 (ISSN-L)
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- en
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