Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children by Viviana A. Zelizer

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

Viviana A. Zelizer

296 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction economics history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this landmark book, sociologist Viviana Zelizer traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically useless and emotionally priceless, from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Having established laws removing many children from the marketpl...

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