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Home Work

Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870–1930

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvRuby Oram

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How reforms to girlhood education in the Progressive Era cemented inequalities of gender, race, and class in urban school systems. In Home Work, historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to implement various public education reforms to shape the lives of girls and women in industrial cities between 1870 and 1930. Women such as Jane Addams and Florence Kelley used education reform to target working-class communities and advocate for their middle-class ideals of girlhood and femininity, which could vary depending on the racial or socio-economic backgrounds of the girls. For example, reformers generally encouraged white girls to care for their future families, while pushing Black girls toward becoming domestic workers in others’ homes. Using Chicago as a case study, Oram also explores how many of the reforms sought by white women were in response to evolving anxieties about immigration, health, and sexual delinquency.An illuminating addition to the history of urban education in America, Home Work enriches our understanding of educational inequality in twentieth-century schools.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-12
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistorical Studies of Urban America
Antal sidor272
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226844312

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Group AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Girl Problem1. The “Girl Problem” or the “Servant Problem”?: Policing Girlhood Labor in Illinois Carceral Schools, 1870–19102. Fit for Motherhood: Regulating Girlhood Health and Labor in Chicago Public Schools, 1888–19153. The Bane of the Tenement: Educating Immigrant Daughters for Scientific Housekeeping, 1890–19104. A School Built Around the Girl: Education for Paid and Unpaid Labor in Chicago High Schools, 1900–19155. Sex, Spending, and “Going Astray”: Vocational Guidance Counseling for Girls of Legal Working Age, 1910–1920s6. A Nation of Good Homes: Labor, Citizenship, and Home Economics for American Girls, 1917–1930ConclusionAcknowledgmentsArchive AbbreviationsNotesIndex

"Exploring educational sites that range from carceral institutions for girls to public high schools, Ruby Oram’s Home Work broadens our conception of turn-of-the-twentieth-century school reform and our understanding of women’s progressivism. Focused on Chicago as a case study, she analyzes public education as a site of struggle between middle-class women reformers and working-class girls, both Black and white. The outcomes of those struggles, Oram demonstrates, illuminate the sources of gender- and race-inequalities in public education for decades thereafter."

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