Domestic Economies : Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943

English

Series: Engendering Latin America Ser.

ISBN: 080321359X

EAN: 9780803213593

Category: Social Science / Children'S Studies/Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American/Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare/Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family/Business & Economics / Labor/Social Science / Sociology / Urban/

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release Date: 01/31/2010

Synopsis: 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 Mexicos emerging middle class were central to the governments 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 Mexicos 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, 18841943analyzes 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.

Domestic Economies : Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.8 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 17.99 oz

Pages: 396