Domestic Economies - Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943 (Paperback)

When Porfirio Diaz extended his modernization initiative in Mexico to the administration of public welfare, the families and especially the children of the urban poor became a government concern. Reforming the poor through work and by bolstering Mexico's emerging middle class were central to the government's goals of order and progress. But Porfirian policies linking families and work often endangered the children they were supposed to protect, especially when state welfare institutions became involved in the shadowy traffic of child labor. The Mexican Revolution, which followed, generated an unprecedented surge of social reform that was focused on families and accelerated the integration of child protection into public policy, political discourse, and private life. In ways that transcended the abrupt discontinuities and conflicts of the era, Porfirian officials, revolutionary leaders, and social reformers alike invoked idealized models of the Mexican family as the primary building block of society, making families, especially those of Mexico's working classes, the object of moralizing reform in the name of state construction and national progress. "Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943" analyzes family practices and class formation in modern Mexico by examining the ways in which family-oriented public policies and institutions affected cross-class interactions as well as relations between parents and children.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Engendering Latin America
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	2010
Authors:	Ann S Blum
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-1359-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-8032-1359-X
Barcode:	9780803213593

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