Pricing the Priceless Child - Couverture souple

Zelizer, Viviana A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691034591 ISBN 13 : 9780691034591

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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 marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. The heightened emotional status of children resulted, for example, in the legal justification of children's life insurance policies and in large damages awarded by courts to their parents in the event of death. A vivid account of changing attitudes toward children, this book dramatically illustrates the limits of economic views of life that ignore the pervasive role of social, cultural, emotional, and moral factors in our marketplace world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Viviana A. Zelizer is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of Morals and Markets: The Development in Life Insurance in the United States (Columbia).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691034591
• ISBN 13: 9780691034591
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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